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• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... (Political Science) in order to focus on public policy, the game was won ... GiantMicrobes.com. For those who wish to own an adorable pink syphillis

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... orders.  A week later, the cannon appeared on MIT campus with a brass rat on its neck and a plaque thanking Howe & Ser for its wonderful moving

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... always down for burrito breaks; another who loves crepes, musicals, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... cheese cubes and prepared for the feature presentation. Alright, so Kate ... pretty much already over for me. Bill actually turns out not to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... ’t even be on campus to try out an intramural sport, for example. I desperately hoped for an on-campus spring, so I still signed up for many sports

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 years ago and graduated 14 years ago. For those REALLY counting, that ... , for those REALLY REALLY counting at home, I'm more than twice as old as

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride ... computers remember things for longer. Very, very fast computers that only

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  homework for JSF. In order to commemorate the trip, for the use of future ... . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students ... exclusively en français. (Forgive me, Professor Perreau, for writing this post

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  in order for the water to disappear. In Kaffa, the reverse is true ... can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  Heisenberg operators for position and momentum obey an analog of Newton ... , took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours ... nurse's comment made it a 10. Sunday Nov 4: I wore pajamas for literally

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by ... forsake one of my passions for the full pursuit of the other. But

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact ... to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... for a group project. I was none too happy about it, I might add. I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... thing. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  every other school I could in order to compensate for what I felt like I ... crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... -confirmed psychic, the tragic fate I had predicted for myself had unfortunately come

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra money from all the canceled lunch orders and use it to buy more class swag ... for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and

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

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017