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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  were becoming a little worried. Luckily, Google Maps had reminded me that ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... Boston and the greater New England community that we are a design capital ... 0:17 in the video Google put out on Gmail’s new redesign

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  . Now, if I worked for Amazon or Google or something, this would not be a ... That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend, and we were walking around campus between rehearsals with a few

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  miles away, a 15 minute drive and a [annotation note="google maps ... reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... moovit, a public transit app that includes bus and subway routes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A ... with a faint, delayed crackle. Most nights, this summit was shrouded in ... ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  period during this block where we all jump on a Google Meet and talk about ... ' meeting, in which we open up a Google Doc and talk about all the things that ... COVID-19 really took a toll on student summer plans this year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  've splurged a semester's worth of energy, motivation, and Googling on amateur ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian ... long as it doesn't eventually crash the computer it's on out of a browser memory leak (always a possibility) it should remain up. Killian is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my halfhearted attempt at keeping a Trello last fall. [caption id ... I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and ... majors, but [annotation note="The math majors still form a plurality on

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  It's a famous dome, and if you've never heard of it then do a google ... into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have ... particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11 ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... some friends after dinner. 12:00 — I grab a sandwich and a large black

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013