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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s an outline, with more detailed stories below. Peruse at your leisure ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design ... seconds gripping the bottle over my face and staring down at my shoes, mumbling. At least, I think I mumbled, but all my classmates wrote "I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... the last three months working at RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at ... the MIT/Cambridge area that this isn’t a bad thing at all. BUT. In the ... ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  week when my supervisor at the Oakland clinic I worked at introduced me to him when he came by. We chatted at length about MIT, his current ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  , because I've been doing nothing at all and it's been utterly fantastic. But ... at the moment. Even down to the bitter end, MIT enjoys beating you ... even that was beyond my abilities at that point. I came home, ordered in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... contacted Jonathan and he, along with Kevin (the guy who spoke to us at Hasbro ... at us and goes "Um, are you two over 18?" My Brain: "Of course we are

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... competition. After it was explained to me I was a little stunned. I looked at my ... 't break at all). Eventually we had a basic little robot with a turret that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  that asks you to ask me questions. I can always be reached via email at bryanblogs [at] mit [dot] edu. (Take that spambot!) Nam wrote: "Hi, I ... : "Hmm... Could you possibly pick a random, normal day at MIT, record what

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... desirable internship at Draper Labs, an MIT-affiliated research institute

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be ... try to act normal, but at home we can use dudebro language and act as ... 've caught at least 5 different species of spiders in California, more roaches

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  brewed jasmine tea at the [annotation note="My very cool independent living ... at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  other circumstance. Do I regret it? No, not at all. For every bridge ... exactly how to react whilst confronted with a million changes at once? At ... you can tune in at any moment. So, without further ado, here’s a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  [/annotation] and testing the headbands to see if the impact on your head changed at all ... our poster to the greater MIT community at the end of the semester. The ... in neat rows. Colorful graphs and arrows jump out at me, and each title

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... , and then again from the border to Denver. We arrived at Denver some ... together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... . you feel REGRET upon looking at the menu, because you don’t like coffee ... you no longer feel unwelcome or judged at blogger meetings, and although

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... Val G. '24 and she arrived at the line at around 9am. I took over her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  This isn't about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about ... appointment at Widener Library, where they checked my government-issued ID and ... anxiety shoot up, but the lady at the counter was pretty nice to me the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  third anniversary. I liked looking at the dresses, which were gorgeous ... water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement ... United Kingdom and started medical school at Stanford. Sometimes I think

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data ... could live at my current place for a very low cost. I had my upcoming ... experience at a company that claimed to use AI for drug discovery, but seemed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022