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• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware ... in settling for something less, but settling as in stopping, resting ... understand a little better now, tracing conversations you’ve already had a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... ."]REST[/annotation]. I know for sure I am taking [annotation note="Oral Communication"]6 ... papers from the original literature. Topics include basic technologies for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the ... ’t trace back to the specific moment that I fell in love with science fair

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  own risk, it's kinda a big image file, but it traces my route for you ... motivated enough, but for some reason this seemed like a good idea, so I went ... Italy) and enjoy the smells so I had to settle for going to Bunker Hill. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... an enriching time for me, and I learned more about what kinds of things ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  projects, finals, senior week, graduation, traveling, and now MISTI for the ... implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech ... Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single ... -- since the prompts were intended for art rather than poems (and I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over ... for the existence of God, the evolution of ideas as time bypassed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger-scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  more—I look for traces of it everywhere, searching for things that remind ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for ... grateful for that. I felt like I had evolved too much for my environment to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... 't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... , get ready for the Great Injustices, er..., the General Institute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking ... homework packet for my [annotation note="an exam to test out of 18.03, aka

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... [/annotation] A LOT of anime. For somebody [annotation note="i still claim this, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... mathematical surfaces. A cabled LOTR sweater my mom knit for me, as evidence of ... for my art and not let it get subsumed by schoolwork and psets. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  apologized for admitting him. i said that he could have gone anywhere else and ... true for all of you: "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the ... as you endured it. The etymology of the word 'endure' traces to a 1382

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  square, devouring and moving forward and moving back. I quietly trace the ... . Why was I embarrassed for losing a chess game with no stakes nor ... resign." "It'll be good for you. You'll learn to deal with failure." It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit ... some poutine for dinner, we got drinks at an Irish pub and watched the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of ... computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018