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• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  common nowadays, but I think they are fun, so I wanted to bring them back ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note: Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important, what we can do to make it better. For example…  Are you able to balance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... 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

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... able to take pictures of the Sun with my phone camera. Still too much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  . My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular ... watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Beginning this Saturday, MIT alumni from around

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about ... requirements, etc. I knew nothing about graduate school. As I began to realize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013