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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  jumble of text and pictures stuffed into the semblance of an admissions ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  consistently lead me out of the classroom and into projects more applied or ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... floating. Days passed and they would blur into one another, I neglected my responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  I need to dew was to trek up into the mountains of Switzerland and see ... from Arizona on the train, I made my way out of the station and into ... school friend Shana for that bit of information. Finding myself suddenly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  rewriting lessons into the wee hours of the morning.  Despite all that, I was ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  they fit the *vibe* of the playlist. that way i can curate them into ... into good schools, at the cost of their mental health and sometimes even ... well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  of cramming a 7 double major into one or two more semesters isn’t lost ... , where I wandered into a cafe and flipped open a book. After a few hours of ... into the essays. I worried I was in for a lifetime of regret if I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  capping 4 years of IHTFP by walking into Killian Court in a cap and gown ... quite a few of those back in early April. At one point I crawled into bed ... now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  into a diverse group of tight-knit individuals [annotation note= "not ... uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  polarization. The polarized glasses allow only one of the images into each eye ... England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  of spreading them over the plate made them easier to dip into. I had no ... part of a building that I rarely have the chance to go into. As somebody ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... dark oak paneling with each stroke of my paintbrush and becoming

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  8% of oil use, we consider it important to raise awareness of the ... Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  the first building we’d entered, into a courtyard of sorts. More barbed ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly, walking past a Dunkin Donuts stand and a row of subway fare machines. I

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

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  end of the hall to another, and into my permanent room assignment, a ... On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  Autumn is arguably one of the best seasons there is, especially here ... colors of fall leaves mixed in with the unique and historic buildings ... but don't really take the time to recognize, so below are some of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  Maggie Lloyd Class of 2012 Alumna MIT-Belgium Program Internship ... internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of ... country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012