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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  the email itself. I can't say I've written many good ones in my time ... the Bombers. I love how I can be completely and unabashedly myself around them, how I know I can come home to a supportive group of people to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... graduate? Am I prepared for the workload? How often is it typically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  doesn't help that code-switching is so prevalent in tagalog, so i can half ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... of the differences between us, in how I see the world and how she sees ... can watch as I awkwardly introduce the group and we cover a Weird Al

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical Engineering major, I learn how to work with others who may or may not share my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  jazz, I've been picking up some info on how this particular Boylston St ... two women conversing in Spanish. And I generally throw in a bit of Tamil ... about how annoying it is to be sick. I like it at this Starbucks! It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  . (What can we say? Kresge gets around.) One of these emails I got in that ... I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you ... me a paper bag to breathe in, I take a look around and realize 1) that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  formulation is that any statement in np can be proven). you can imagine how ... them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re ... correctly 100 times in a row then my friend can be pretty confident the balls

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised ... experience I have had at MIT, if not in my life. It is hard both academically ... semester was going, and I said, in jest, that "my roommate and I have been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would ... time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  stuffed full in my brain. At this point, I had realized just how stressful ... , frustratingly, overwhelmed. “How can I help you sweetie,” the help desk man asked ... enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... I need to finish before going in to work. Every Friday, my research ... working on. This Friday, it’s my turn to present the progress I’ve made in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... how far I've come in such a short amount of time. 2022 was a year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023