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• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  in my career? Bro, am I an adult??? How do I vote? How do I become ... decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  app culture at MIT for the class Petey taught last semester, and did an in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and ... grad student for a while. At minimum two years, even more if I get in to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  look for at MIT either, it's just what I know was, in hindsight, these ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... In recent weeks, we have been fielding many questions over phone and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  eight hours of work per day and was in the office for meetings. As long as ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  the money in my wallet. It is coming for me at an alarming pace. Please ... NECESSARY for being an Interesting Person™. But they’re definitely fun, and ... ’t picked up my needles for a loooong time. One day, though, I was in the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... ate: It looked like I had waken in on an asian-inspired dinner menu ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  War Soldier for an hour watching a small Asian boy try in vain to ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an ... -Japanese fusion cuisine behind an unassuming concrete facade. Since I was dressed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ? It looks like an orange, doesn't it? If only... It tasted like a ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  was 14. I haven't been alone in life for longer than three months in this time and have relied on some partner as an anchor for these past ... leaving MIT and jumping into a future that was so solidly in place for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  figurines that looked creepily like Leibniz (not pictured, for your mental ... money and stuff. In all seriousness, I lived entirely on free food for my first three weeks* at MIT, which in itself was an experience worthy of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  rating underwear colors in my inbox *insert context here*

  

  /10 an extra point in creativity for nude, given it subverts even having an ... defined an objective metric, this is for fun. sorry if i dog on your ... is gonna look like, so i give this 9 for thematic relevancy

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse ... purple leaves. Why was my mind finding enjoyment in looking at plants? Was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  critic. I look over everything I have written, deeming it inadequate in ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  live in a dorm for four years or you join an FSILG, don't overlook the ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... time for your high-school hobbies - writing, an instrument, reading - can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I ... for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... 's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  . And tour groups in Killian Court looked at it as they went by. Hacks ... years in a row, with good reason. It climbs 20 stories, with an amazing ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005