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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... . You know how they say "Do one thing that scares you every day"? My

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  big-time...especially since I have a lotttt of work to do between now ... nearly a year. Things perked up slightly when I walked into my Delta-provided hotel room and saw a beautiful queen size bed. I curled up and (1) watched

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  , I want my free space. So that’s why architecture has been such a pain ... install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... -D; Note: every line has 10 segments, each segment has to be moved a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  have joined together like a Megazord to become the new Ben. I don ... of buzzwords, like a pufferfish wrapped in chain mail and festooned ... prospective students talk to each other. This blog is a huge part of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  asking me if I got a tattoo. Why do so many people thing you're supposed to ... on a trip, so we just have lots of homework to do for the class. I ... a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... - they knew it was my first shift, and they were really patient and took a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  implement it in a new language -- doing that allowed us to really solidify the ... the process, so we'll take that as a win anyways. After doing that, we ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  , camp. "Talent Development" turned out to mean "do a lot of really cool ... When I was a child I was a nerd. (I know this comes as a big shock to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot of awesome Boston-area college students. Considering that a lot of ... colleges, I’ve definitely considered this a unique opportunity. There’s a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... a catalogue of sorts here. I guess Fridays are whatever you make of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... at home, doing nothing, being nothing. Eternal nothingness. I did

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... friendship by reducing her life to a sinusoidal function. Proof of Why Katelyn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate ... them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these princesses a few hours later. So this will be my last MITblog entry from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  distances while they do their best impression of a drooling sack of flour ... Cooper doing the Gangnam Style dance in front of a bunch of cheering ... . Every once in a while it's important to make them do something or see

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  look into the work I'm doing, because as a UROP, I sometimes just get ... , because I wasn't expecting to do super well on this interview. But after a ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020