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• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... day we were there, it struck me as a vibrant city with stunning ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and basically the first time I’ve lived like a real adult. My official title at Sony was a “Front-End Development Intern”. When I got the position I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... feels like we’re presenting a small town middle school science fair ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or boring, but, if you take

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... usually spend a significant time editing these posts, but I wanna go lie

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  AM-6PM days begin with a long but beautiful commute through the ... charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... nearly got charged by a white rhino. I took a lot of photos. And the world

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  set off on a cross-country road-trip. I was leaving that early because I ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... . Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club ... Collier's Cranes, a hack of thousands of paper cranes hung suspended inside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ... "Shake It Off," the band sung "Make It All" a song about how we students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big red box. When I was but a tiny fetus, I remember counting down those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013