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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  celebrated July 4th in the most American way we knew how - going to the beach ... , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to ... Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be ... (in the movies the mentor usually gets killed instead of leaving to get ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... without needing to wash it- I can get ice cream from the Baskin Robbins

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  quite timid in getting to know them. But my experience with UROPs and Tw ... gets work done in an effort to further our mission. The TwT experience ... really believed in the mission and it seemed like a good way to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... and motivating you to "do well," your success in college will

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... very good". Certainly you don't have to be an IMO medalist to get in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... ’d essentially been in the same room from 8am to 8pm for setup, rehearsal ... have no idea what to do with my interest in music now that i’m no longer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  dependent on how good I was at it, not in general and not in comparison to ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... understand the documentation and how to make sense of Drake in general, but we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow ... year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025