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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ... food, but buy a $5 coffee or smoothie every day anyways. it's probably ... ideals, and are likely in the [annotation note="undergraduate association

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... three weeks or so.  We'd go late in the evenings when the crowd wasn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  split us all up - funny things are mostly only funny when they're said in ... emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of ... in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack ... asleep and didn't notice that the driver was tailing other cars in icy ... the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English: school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... courses in your major) – and more pressure to be uh, mature and serious

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  , it's because MIT hates me. II -- Yesterday, while sitting in the kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it ... then just bring/buy what you're most comfortable with. You by no means

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  usual pork belly in my Miso ramen, though). We then went to Nike to buy ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  those lines that are not written in English, note that Colin read them in ... English translation in brackets. https://youtu.be/dGiehdTV5Ok   Class ... , followed by “yo, 你怎么样?”, which means “yo, what’s up?” in Mandarin Chinese

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011