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• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... to do the same thing on Transparent Horizons. After a comfortable ... same. Shana: "Do you think it's a little worrisome that the symbol of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  I really thought about it, as I tend to do. We put on quite a show if ... well as we do now, but this was like a core bonding moment for us. most ... ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  was ambitious for me because I don’t usually use acrylics and doing a ... ’s resolutions to keep a consistent journal. One thing I’m doing differently is ... concludes most of what I've been doing in my free time since the summer! A lot

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  complicated relationship. But it’s true: I do have a lot of Spotify playlists ... songs on shuffle five times and do a little annotation of what comes up ... A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  because they were a long time ago and I'm getting old), and all these blog ... calmed me down, added a slight glaze to my eyes, and made me demand more ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room scarfing down bacon and coffee with over a hundred other representatives from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  months, all I’d wanted to do was leave. Now, I had a chance to do so early ... do a mean impression of Morrissey, the widely and rightfully disliked ... incredibly understanding, and all they wanted to do was help. It took me a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  note="Another grad student was doing a project where--i kid you not ... our hero! He went on to do projects for a diving company after college ... , working in Professor David Wallace’s lab. Alongside a grad student named

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy ... from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  things he's said is that: "MIT is not a war", "what are you doing for fun ... A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... MIT News orbiturary is here. Jessica:   Do you know that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  has a sub-culture as well. Our hall has cats. And we do lots of cool ... Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft. It was a big, nervous change for me because I am not only change-averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... sometimes do), but moreover, the constant exposure to a system that affected ... choose to do this in their essays (and we ask about a hardship or challenge

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  .5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development ... was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... semester running a ChatGPT-like application on a [annotation note="The same

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019