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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  live some life at MIT without putting all of it online, so it all worked ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  during their first year at MIT. I placed out of the CI-W requirement ... here at MIT and make some of my best friends in the world, but MIT is ... one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my ... was 3 missiles, and three of the five runs had no missiles launched at ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  /no record will be a distant memory. At the orchards, three of us wandered ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last ... 's really good at helping you find out about yourself in that way. After all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... -- my urop at the broad institute is also a lot of work, something my ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... ’s campus—and gave me the idea of illustrating the support found at MIT during ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  general direction (at least for this particular phase of my life/version of ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... having a great time exploring a new city. I felt tired at the end of it all ... last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  of MIT would make me enjoy writing so much, but it has. At the MIT ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at ... I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even ... night of live music, dancing, and some pretty funky Haitian food, and ... didn't eat all that much, I feel so full of everything that's happened

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  homework at my desk. Somehow, I’ll have to swap the idea of MIT for what is ... ) demoralized at my inability to solve problems with the grace or speed of my ... disappointed at the end of the movie. She created the world everyone else wanted

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024