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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... day determined to be myself, even if it meant sticking out. And so I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... hurried, and that duct tape is too elastic to store any torsional energy ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  – It is BacTelomere’s time to shine. Ten minutes and eleven slides later ... middle of May. As an aside, it may or may not be of interest to note that ... day, so without further ado, here is how it begins: 8:10 AM – My phone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... value of their memories later in life. It’s led me to incredible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... medication advertisement. And it's not like it would start to reverse, drawing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP ... How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  write about how I long for another chance to buy a five-dollar boba at ... am, that my biggest complaint is an interruption to what was otherwise ... like a new day is coming, and I have reason to be optimistic. We survived.

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more (it's hard to keep track of what everyone is doing.) We spend most ... -band feedhorn. Oh, wait. It is a beautiful thing to touch the structure that ... that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  house. Dark days. Literally. I did it though - I stuck to the training ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at ... big goals that I set out to conquer and failed at. I made it 50 miles

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and ... a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  fire hose that is MIT has barely been turned on, it tends to freak you ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth ... magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  ." Basically, it generates text very accurately, and it's not easy to get access ... to see if the bot is capable of generating a reasonable response ... into GPT-3 again, so GPT-3 could use it to generate a reasonable response

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... fact we're preparing for it on campus already, there is still the ... Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all ... amount of things I want to talk about is so numerous that it would easily ... , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It’s

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  't bother buying a custom domain for it since, well, it's not that serious ... to learn React and Typescript better, so it's definitely not the most ... Last spring, I took CMS.614, Network Cultures, taught by Petey. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  come to you. It is when she sits, listening to your vision and being in ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... shoulders. It asks you to look into yourself and think deeply about who you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  where I’ll live a year from now, but wherever it is, I’ll look for the ... do about it. I understand how grind culture is harmful, but I love what ... pushing my limits. Working hard has brought me far, and it’s easy to believe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff ... doesn't ignore potential; we create it. Thus, say hello to the all

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  Hong Kong. It is a warm, relaxed city. A fine place to spend a weekend ... lyrics to an entire album. It was the last night of the tour. The energy ... month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015