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• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... for me during some really difficult times in high school. I really lost ... , again, watched another movie. This time it was Requiem for a Dream. I wish

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... that it isn't that easy for everyone, and even for me, it still kinda ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for ... . Before the meeting, you register for classes online; then you [annotation ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education ... structure for collaborative education, research and innovation, the MIT ... be not only a center of advances in computing, but also a place for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of other MIT community members. He was partly inspired by Bruke K. ‘19, for ... different skills needed for effective research. There were even some projects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind ... ’s door, the room cleaning, the napping…. I could take it all for granted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... like my workplace and might seriously want to return for the summer.3 To ... tools for others to use. On a day-to-day basis, we mostly code quietly.4

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  same city in the same house in Los Angeles for all of my 18 years. Life ... predicted and accepted that I would miss my family miserably for a month or so ... MIT had to offer. So I was totally unprepared for how it actually

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... , correcting for smaller damages. “—and a perfectly good reason. Well, did you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for the few days following the wedding, I lived with my grandma in her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... college-ruled!) method for anyone else who suffers from Handwriting Deficit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  Adelaide '09 for the diagonal idea. I decided that painting the bottom half ... with this sad excuse for a palm tree: Well, I wasn't convinced that I ... discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... the night, by flashlight, for some reason, after the stragglers have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... upperclassmen or the Admissions Office hear, for this is top-secret information ... few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor ... until the end to see his really great advice for prefrosh! Melis: Can you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006