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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for ... of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  I'm sitting on my bed, back against the windowsill and sneakered feet ... three pillowcase-less pillows. I can't remember the last time I just sat down and hung out - I am totally wiped. Time always accelerates through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean, you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough featured on the news, but I didn’t really understand that there was a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... /Cambridge area, but I usually forget the poster exists until I've done something off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was totally crazy. A year later I e-mailed her with a peer-reviewed paper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this fun fact started feeling disingenuous as I strayed further and further

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... searching happening as I try and remember what has happened since then. What is life like after MIT? Same same and different. I’m still an engineer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books read/time spent ratio as an 18 year old, I would read short novellas and comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have[annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  : I'll go the gym starting tomorrow!! And from this week on, I'll gym 3 times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh ... ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while. Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  meant that I haven't done much fun stuff other than spend an obsene amount ... But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes, so I though I'd let everyone know that I'm taking this semester. My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• 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 college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for

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

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010