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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  , comfortable. But actually letting yourself feel, that’s much harder to ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  needs to be disclosed to the other party. I've rejected plenty of people ... passions. I don't feel the need to lie to myself by claiming this was out of ... much. Nor do I want to pretend that this motive was somehow charitable

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my ... ; fairly mundane stuff. But mundane is nice. I often feel like I have to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  depending on what you need to accomplish therein. One is labeled with a drop ... , because I needed something pretentious like that to conclude the entry ... message (from myself) that I needed some time to verify comments from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... gives you gallstones. Luckily, I don't like spinach very much. That's why I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... it justice, and there are certain things I need to make clear to you. I ... the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  our Delivery, from good people flow to enough space (but not too much ... event was so much fun! First everyone got in line to get their rings to ... pictures ranging from snapchat level fancy to professional photographer level

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  does not encourage this, much--you can't put "I think about my feelings a ... MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can ... someday own one or stick to the idea that they are too much space and ... ’s not much else to do right now, but work is definitely going to build up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And ... about what I needed to do next for my physical and mental health. Nearly ... to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  , it also made me reflect on how much I tied my worth and identity to One ... see myself, and really, this class just reminded me that I need to be in ... teaching me so much and listening to my long, long talks about Twitch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor ... much formal training, so I'm pretty excited to learn some stuffs. (Note ... all, CPW does seem to keep happening! And that's a good sign.) And last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  wonderfully nerdy mom or girl that you need to impress. I think this one is ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... of EA admits from last year's 390 to this year's 522. Fear not, we have

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  develop the analytical and communication skills he needed to write about the ... 's taught me to think from a technical perspective, and it's much easier to ... Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... to our MIT ID cards, and you can put as much or as little money as you ... who is not all sweetness and light. Whoa, okay, I need to get myself to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  sales: we were the 6th and 7th people in line! Turns out we didn’t need to ... The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022