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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... than some variance in my Spotify playlists, experiencing the horrors of ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  them in conjunction with Ben's mom, etc.) IAP began a little over a week ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason ... crawling and bruised, limbs hanging off in stray directions, back to my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... ’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... be in the social sciences (or something like that). This class counted

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... readings, in-class discussions, and essays). I really like Prof. Campbell ... suck less.  In general, I really like taking public policy classes. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough ... friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of ... that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in

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

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  regret or shame, buying a tofu sandwich in St. Louis with robotics without ... and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... down. In hindsight, I know that this was just anxiety about something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

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