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• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June ... , auspiciously, on Super Pi Day (3/14/15 at 9:26AM) to begin their MIT education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a ... random Bostonians. (Sorry the video is so shaky but hey, he told me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve this year? teach nance how to publish his blog entries so that i don

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... eats to go to bed. Farhan: Hmm? Sam: Yeah, isn't that total crap? I eat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  career to the Air Force in exchange for tuition. As for med school itself ... for the Air Force to offer a GYN oncology training position. As a very ... first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the real answer could have been unflattering or cruel to those women. But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  consider who I am and who I want to become. I think getting to MIT forces ... resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E  R O U T E  H O M E Before

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  about altruism and also force experimental economists to re-think their ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005