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• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... friend Lex, who I hadn't seen in ages, dropped by my office. Back when we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• 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 ... them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a little easier than step one, because if you didn't learn how to drive in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  undergrad, nor did I have any faith in myself that I would be able to land ... would not have money anymore. In practical senses, I’m grateful for what ... phone calls were good and to be honest, I would’ve been happy working with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  write in a 10 page paper. It was about how many different sources could I ... , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came ... products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing ... top of the page each time we turn something in. Unfortunately, I make

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  while, I felt I would just major in something that was “pure” science ... major in astronomy or [annotation note="Ha. How cute and naïve I was ... would do. In a sense, I craved something more tangible to me than these

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as ... home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  idea of how people would treat me I would have figured out how to enjoy ... country a little more, in a similar way to how I am accustomed to the bias ... asked me to describe my time in India, I would repeat a three-word phrase

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... reasons, which I’ll reveal in another post. 11.125 will get a bullet point

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... 've mostly been enjoying myself. I am, by the by, back home in South Bend. I ... . Last year, if you'd told me I would be writing these words, I probably

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... break. I’ve been telling people that my emotions this semester would be

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... I'm sure freshman me would be pretty upset about that. But I guess in ... when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  've changed and how I've stayed the same. When I fell in love with the blogs, I ... have no idea how I stumbled across them as an elementary schooler with very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  how my nose twitched with frustration as I hit "Yes, I would like to ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010