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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  classroom to real-time projects that have a significant impact on communities ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture ... do not have to walk more than a stone's throw away. Our system also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... wanted out of my life. I have a lot of other work to complete this summer ... - so I wanted to be on a functional adult 9-5 schedule. Seattle is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... was really nice: I got to see familiar buildings from a different angle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... , giving me a hug and leaving to go do whatever small, red block he’s got

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot recently about making art.  Painting used to be an ... changing. I’m a messy painter, or at least… I used to be. The last time I ... have an explicit desire to spend 8 hours staring at a photo of plums, but

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC ... to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far ... hopefully green and equitable), and how to develop a political program that

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus ... tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember all the times my professors stayed a few minutes after class to ... remember taking a weekend off to visit family, to rearrange my priorities ... Last Wednesday, somewhere between a biology test and a chemistry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... my subscription to [annotation note="Honestly? I’m a few months behind ... , hire a professional agency to take on this project—and I am very much not

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  course). Oh Sam. While I'm talking about Sam, I just have to tell you a ... terribly busy I make a point to say hi. Now, as I mentioned, it's only a few ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... and waitlisted applicants will not see a change.) If you do not wish to ... Thursday, you'll want to take a brief vacation from your MyMIT account until

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  , and she wanted a cute video to send to the family group chat. So, I put ... ="While expressing gratitude is a part of Thanksgiving, I want to make sure we don’t reduce it to only a cheerful holiday. Many of my international friends have

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of ... ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... me hard. I had to build a model in seven hours in October, with barely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica ... initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals ... buildings is incredible. It takes a lot of creativity to replicate certain

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020