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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 ... room for special pieces of communal life, but to be really alive it must

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

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  narrative for a lot of people. This particular event just happened to be more ... stuff I listened to years ago.  I prepped for Thundermother, who were ... "] the crowds for Iron Maiden were too thick to move through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very ... decision day, I expected to be deferred for the most part. I was hoping I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  which are all pieces I've been kicking myself to read for a while ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  've learned how to take notes in lectures, I've learned how to shop for ... greasy 😭"]the process of learning how to shop for groceries ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  headed to a pop up restaurant for some arepas. when we were sufficiently ... headed to Old San Juan, which is renowned for its cobblestone streets and ... , we climbed for a few minutes to reach a series of stunning waterfalls

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... Gold Award projects. I'm learning to ice skate for PE credit (I'm from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... of free food motivate you to put your head down and stick it out for ... particularly well known for their maker culture. The examples that come to mind

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual ... dance and theater groups) will request to use the space for practices or ... or TV or friends. It's also a good place to look for course bibles

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  ! =) (Translation: As you guys should know, I'm spending this summer working for ... for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone ... the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  person with some escaping her mouth.  I’ve been wanting to embroider for a ... to actualize many ideas I’ve had for a while now.    This was my ... for improvement, but I’m satisfied overall. I didn’t want to give up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  eventually make me both happy AND less sick because I’ll be able to pay for ... beautiful curtain backdrop) speak for themselves. Thanks to my sister Katie ... ’s my open letter to y’all:   Dearest friends, Thank you for the

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  … Taylor Swift’s songs came to me for the first time at exactly the right ... ’t relate to as much, the vehicle for those songs that was her voice gave them ... Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other ... experiencing now, and what they will continue to endure. My heart breaks for each

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... the clothes to wear for the day and the judgment calls his neighbor ... , so that every droplet of water that touched him seemed to linger for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... UROPs. Don't be stuck working for a lab you don't want to work for or ... only asking for what I wanted to eat makes me feel a bit better. As I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  never thought I would be coming to MIT to chop stuff. But during REX, for ... Lodge, a training program for first-years on how to use various tools. I ... training slot, which was a bit easier. For this one, we were instructed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019