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• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  friends anymore, Victor." Ouch. But it's fair. We used to talk every day for ... people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... for a conference our group had organized. The idea was to aggregate all

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________________ The second person I would love for you all to meet is Qing Li, Class of ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us ... order to start the cycle again for sophomore year, we decided to transfer ... freinds from highschool gave Allan for secret santa 6) Trinkets related to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... got a perfect score on whatever exam you have to take for dental school ... staging elaborate three course meals for diners, we try to convince our

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... allowance charge? Don't parents need to put money in an account for food or ... . AT MIT, if meal money goes unused for whatever reason, it goes back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  actually a lot of fun to think about host lots of office hours for students ... did well in, but for various reasons (sometimes classes require you to ... ’m grateful to web.lab for is that it produced a rare instance of value

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  is almost as old as I am? He was supposed to interview me for my job ... At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... was, but it's who I've become, for a variety of reasons. Maybe sometime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  not too hard), so I had a bit of time to warm up my voice for my ... Building to the Memememememme Center for Mimery for my PE class, which is ... I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  experience these lives singing against mine for as long as we choose to? and ... Isola lab I’ve been trying to investigate certain claims, for example by ... Aleksander Madry’s work we struggled for a while to get solid vision SAEs we

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  goal for this trip was to soak everything in, the environment, people ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering ... immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  chance for us to talk to some of the inmates, and for them to talk to us ... incredibly friendly. They were very willing to talk. Lee spoke for a little ... ’s something I’m grateful for, something I try to pass on to the other inmates. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending ... long run. To compensate for the sleep debt accumulated throughout my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009