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• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at ... you out of the way because they need to be at places. I don't miss ... outside. We go to a park at the end of the week and we have the whole place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  stuck on a pset problem at some obscene hour of the morning - watch out ... - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... meet 3 really cool ECs, one of whom actually teaches math at the same ... first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it ... couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the ... hours of sleep than I could count on one hand. The other hand usually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  communities and/or society at large. I ran into one of these opportunities a ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  and spinach salad: one of my first attempts at "real food"!   ... **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... plantains at Hmart instead of bananas--it still tasted alright, though. For ... .111, which actually went pretty well (at least I think so). 5.111 is one of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the stereotype you're looking at. One version of the stereotype is that ... , bisexual and transgender) residents, or at least more who are out of closet ... Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... , approved my classes, and (essentially) said Give it your best. At the end of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  this really cool way of thinking of about a million things at once, have ... , the glass on the front of the factory was laser etched with Mr. Potato ... my coverage of the Hasbro world headquarters ends because we weren

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of-hours-working-at ... thoughts. At MIT, I found a world filled with vast expanses of chalkboards ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a ... time I spend on each one. Then I just kind of stared at the numbers. They ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in ... at-risk youth. He was later found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. The media ... still is grasping at the moral, peaceful way of life we’ve grown used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  humanities major of some sort. I’ve been sad that at MIT I haven’t dabbled in ... learned that lots of people at MIT don’t carry their keys and just leave ... phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  since I’ve been at MIT, I’ve felt like I’ve been really on top of ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri-is-not-good-at ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was ... I was doing. Regardless of whether or not you end up at MIT, I hope

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014