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• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  -progress for more than a century ever since L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful ... !!![/annotation]   Here's some fun Kano-lore: Wicked was my gateway musical. A decade ... . Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  . it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly, but like, a deep post. something that's a little more reflective and ... 's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... office. Earlier that month, a slew of Ethiopian political prisoners

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 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!

  

  't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  Hey everybody. I must confess that if I were not a college admissions officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... fun people that I have ever met. Andrea Campos is a senior Course 15

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life–choosing a career, getting married, having kids, getting promoted (or fired

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... i’m still a little anxious, but i’ve also realized things are not as ... a new lease, changed my hair and speaking style and health routines

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a ... got a modern makeover; there are multiple brand new buildings changing ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  less aesthetically appealing–I think MIT has a vendetta against ceilings ... favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in ... .), but my favorite instance was a particular rendition of “All of Me,” by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I returned from my gap year last September. I knew I’d changed a lot over my ... sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a handful of people from CPW. Four years felt like such a long time back then ... still remember getting a whopping 34 on my first midterm at MIT. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020