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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... and married him, and moved across the Atlantic to the other Cambridge to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... /serious injury to the person (these are usually suicides). Perhaps not too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown High School. When the district decided to expand, the original building ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat ... proceeded to spew unneccesarily-but-hilariously theoretical answers over the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc ... with the caveat that memories are believed to be strongly modified by later experience. So I'm going to try and cite from primary sources (that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... really dreadful rodent problem. To draw attention to this ever-growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... afterparty. There, I got to meet with virtual reality experts and learn more ... Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Notice any similarities to other famous domes

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to going to Cambridge, where there is a friendly rivalry between MIT and ... scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all ... scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of ... extremely quickly. Here is a list of blog posts I meant to finish, to no ... Buffet And after a while it became even harder to write a blog post

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  honor to be sitting here in my bed writing this right now, cementing ... blogging community admits to our crimes of media over the past year via a ... Form I asked the other bloggers to fill out was pretty convoluted and

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes ... enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn ... drew closer, resume workshops and interview tips began to dominate my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017