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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up ... a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... ,[/annotation] and gaming channels for doing [annotation note="i cannot describe how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  up my entire body. I sprained my knee during [annotation note="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know. Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... still ask for and value grades, test scores, and extracurricular

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... of them til I find homes for them around here. So I took a trip back to CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... brilliant use of the close-up, cross-cutting, rapid-fire editing, the iris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  - I was super intimidated for a lot of reasons. Growing up as the ... survive. So basically, I signed up for a summer of stress, sleep deprivation ... pattern - hunting for the best shortcuts across campus, making daily trips

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other ... , but it made it up here for similar reasons to why #9 wasn't last. It ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... presentation, walking up and down stairs, more presentations, milk and cookies ... , I dozed into soundless oblivion. I was standing up. The presenter was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... invitation to go hacking just because you are scared you won't wake up for your ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Good evening. This is Ruth Miller, field reporter for Sam's blog ... adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... you don't think they'll go, unless you want them to come As for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times ... 2014, someone met up with the MBTA Director David Carney to ask him why

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  after you run because the LA air is dry and you'll wake up the next morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early ... same thing for lunch and dinner every day does, in fact, get boring

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so ... was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... 't become different colors. For example, what looked pinkish face-on became a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  work, psets, and consistently staying up till 4 am or 5 am. (4) It ... to be sending several up several prayers during the course of this ... serve us our 6.006 exam." (credit for pic goes to FB user Loneoceans Ggy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  MyMIT tracking is up-to-date with what has been processed. If you were to call, basically all we could do is tell you that MyMIT is up ... problems that we can do something about. We expect to be fully caught up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  exam schedule gets a bit more staggered, so it's better). For example ... another 3 hours to write everything up and find enough citations. Yup - that ... week. :) What's really messed up this semester is that I don't have class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009