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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  friends at MIT, and Rafael, the boy at the end of the hall, who I now know ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  sentiment of this entry still applies. Don't give up hope! People really do ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war ... are my stepdad, you are probably laughing so hard you just fell out of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... and a walking encyclopedia of information on health and nutrition. We

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  ) Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic ... semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then ... been hard, because of so many reasons — mental health, trying to figure

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  major focus of poetry. I figured I’d learn new skills that can be applied ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... threshold of a new world of possibilities, like I could really achieve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006