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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  ’t mind staying in a hotel for the night, that’d be nice. If our flight gets ... time mismanagement <-- (will be a word today is actually a word), so I ... and booking it before they closed the subway, I was able to be reunited

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  overflowing with, and there will be plenty of surprises along the way. ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  guys and not want to be them.  The fact that I actually kinda ended up ... .  What are you excited for for the future (can be personally, for society ... . '21 “I will mostly talk about the more personal/emotional aspects of how

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  on the front and a phrase on the back: to be the best of men. One of ... instance, including the people that are part of it and their behaviors, will ... , “To be the Best of Men”. I thought of conversations and my growing ease

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  /10 such that Example: “Should the laws be changed such that the state has less power?” Translation: “Should the laws be changed so that the state ... ” implies that I made so much food that I satisfy the condition of being able

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... things too. That's right – the same sticking-together rocks holding papers ... with many doors, and cats walking through the open doors. Each door has a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

    intimidating would be an understatement. In panic, towards the beginning, I ... site the prompts may or may not be weird. We just compiled writing ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  now all the money donated to Emily's initiative will go to the fallen ... : We are a strong community.  We will remember the sacrifice made by the ... It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936 ... DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  to be internal. We scraped together all the information we could find ... devoted myself to the project without worrying about other work I could be ... . ‘24, and her lab mate, Rick W. ‘25, an exchange student from the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  . 2023 is the year of the dog, we said; 2024 will be the year of the ... aisle. It was the best day of my life. I love being in love, and I loved ... to the MITOC office. I don't know where I'll be in four years, but I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  will change the world. Hailing from Moraga, Calif., Bjornson-Hooper is ... From the MIT Alumni Association's New & Noteworthy When the 1,005-strong Class of 2010 steps on campus next fall, they will find a cohort of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm.  11:30 — I slowly get up while cursing at the world. This term ... last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process started out normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... . Quito itself is at just under 10,000 ft (3 km) above sea level, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... !) Ames Research Center is the one with the funny hangar- it's our north

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  ?! Answer: yes. How do I know? Well, after 4 years of being asked the same ... 'm going to be completely honest: the descriptions of the rigorous academic ... Asbury Park? It must be something in the water, right? The MCVSD is sort

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests, including: Migrated the whole site to a Movable Type

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat ... might be the last time I see many people so I’m trying to prioritize that ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021