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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  've been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So ... inadequate for my needs. And also when its spacebar and Enter key broke, so it became mostly unusable without an external keyboard. I started hunting for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to ... listen to. i just have so many playlists for like literally everything that ... . running - lol i wonder what this is for :P i actually made this playlist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... verbalizing protocols for a state exam. It took me almost a year of watching ... conversations, I’d suggest getting started before 8am. Your body is, for all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and[annotation note = "tl ... going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I ... where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... ?" or "can I part with this for an indeterminate amount of time?" boxes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... hours browsing through job listings and googling opportunities in the ... ’m doing are super exciting. I have one other big goal this summer. For the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take ... (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... for you to cover and so much stuff to do while you're here that you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  Google when I interned there for a second summer. I liked how it didn ... represent my friends, home, and love for nature. Everyone who knows me knows ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... and it passed; it wasn't really remarkable. i wrote a paper for 24

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete ... premises undetected and without any trouble as agent june opened the door for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  about it some more once I hear the jet engines whirlin'. :) But for now ... there for more than 4 hours, so they delayed my arrival time in Chicago ... to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a ... stayed because whatever options I had for leave felt worse.  And despite ... , starting from so much Google Calendar-ing. The future seemed like a dark void

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... that should have been trivial. I found myself frantically googling

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two ... -week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming ... for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  slack for my last flight: [visually_hidden]Slack thread that starts ... ." The thirteen replies are as follows: Here is my tale: rebranding for the ... earlier because i have no layover now And I'm not gonna be late for my 5

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a ... in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... office for 3 months, and established our hardware engineering capability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019