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• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... my friend Siyi C. ‘26, a fellow winter enthusiast who occasionally

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... : "Don't you think it's time to leave MIT behind?" A question I know many ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  edgy, I've spent the past month and a half feeling as though I am ... just playing a game of distraction. As of late, I've been watching my life happen before my eyes like a movie of some sort instead of actively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time ... .  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a lot more time there, working, or not, and made a lot of fond memories

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... , paintbrushes, a small copic marker set, paintbrushes, and a marker pad. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... .01L lecture, I would wake up at a crisp 8:30AM, wash up, eat some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which ... . she signed my book!"] The Dragon Warrior  [/annotation] a binder containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="aligncenter" width="487"] Cinnamon rolls[/caption] A few days later, I travelled halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really ... Brewery[/caption] A meme that hit home-- I saw a bear!! [caption id

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  A few days ago, Spotify generated a playlist for me that included a ... school and growing up, I thought I should write a bit about how different things are now. A lot of people reading the admissions blogs are rising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i ... ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering ... , working within a budget, and gain unifying engineering experience.   ... construction of a high quality functioning alpha prototype. The large teams

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving ... alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a better day, because it’s still a good idea lol) but maintain the self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... tell you a story." One day, as a young man, he got in an elevator

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful ... alumni, and even folks who aren't affiliated with MIT but who have had a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016