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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Simmons folk, new kids on the block. Time to write the next chapter, to be ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... , upperclassmen, fellow 17'ers, and new members. I wanted to make sure everyone was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... were going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Brazil to learn about their local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially ... , my thoughts drifted to a dinner conversation from months earlier with

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre ... . Feeling very uncultured, I went on to read that he was voted into the ... a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make veggie lasagna on Wednesday. We also have a finals board ... also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  my company for taking a chance on me; here's to the upcoming school ... intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... " actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult ... , small and large. All large events planned to be held on campus through

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  ’s not rare to see a freshman and a senior hard at work together. On the ... sleep. Then to open my eyes to the surprises of a new day. Of a new week ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... to squat and bench press. There are a lot of blogs on this here site ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  general, so we are looking to expand as a whole. We’re also working on ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... about project classes? These tend to be more varied, depending on the ... 's helpful to note that a semester is roughly four months, or sixteen weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  will validate years of hard work and sacrifice, and set you on a new and ... seemed like a great opportunity to get a different perspective on the ... , and maybe even these blogs, so the decision to apply was not a daunting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... multitude of new tools, woodworking equipment, and supplies to convert an ... Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  a general handle on what was going to happen: we’d do a table read of ... communicating a feeling to the observer. When your words on the page—nothing more ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... mouse project, I've been working on a yeast two-hybrid screen. Basically ... cell dies. There's another flowchart here. It's a little short on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I ... . According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a bedroom is primarily defined as ... ’t dye my hair, or pick my haircuts, or dress how I wanted to dress as a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... year!) A compilation: September 10, 2006- On Orientation September ... I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... , MIT runs on caffeine. Assumptions: If someone was holding a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022