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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... tasks were previously performed manually. What can be done with a ticket ... ' Gare Montparnasse as a possible time saver in that long tunnel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I ... -breathing startup, whereas I'm still thinking in a more theoretical realm... I love

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... tomorrow, as I pack my bags for what seems like the hundredth time this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  please. I've done this route before and I still got confused (or is this a ... 've spent 2 and a half years in Cambridge and I spend no more than 4 weeks at ... things I did while in California: Went to a ton of doctors appointments

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2 ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for ... is what has built the life I have. From a poem by Yena Sharma Purmasir ... three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the ... like I learned a ton in the class, and I have accepted that there was no ... . I did really well in the class, and even enjoyed it to a point

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... this and what I’ll call “normal adult things”—making a budget and paying ... something I didn’t know before: having a bad start to a semester doesn’t mean

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  before showtime, Ceri, Nikki, and I posted up in Kresge while each group ... ’s The Way I Are, a classic from when I was in high school.) The MIT ... Closing Show, respectively. Coincidentally, I am part of a long legacy of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at ... before, because I remember trying to play Assassin's Creed in ninth grade ... as before, and it hurts. Last year I worked on a writing retreat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a ... Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  -100 piano![/caption] Juggling in Lobby 10 Many a night I’ve returned from a ... papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of ... was really funny, so I joined the back of the conga line. In a couple

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  , I'm not a writing major. I sit in a graduate-level cryptography class ... computer science classes this year, but today I only have a single lecture ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... , via email or in a comment below. I am hoping that others, particularly ... encouragement in these stories of students like these. edit: A few days later, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... : Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish was the song that appeared most in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  image in my head with the person before me. I don't quite know what to do ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  misleading because I actually poured it into a bowl before drinking it ... . Tonight, my subconscious is in a recursive mood. I dream that I fell asleep ... this stage in the dream, I immediately wake up in real life, clutching a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  small thing. Here's what I've been up to: 1. Having a job This summer ... a place, a culture, a way of working, but ultimately what I really ... what I fill the long stretches with, the weird time, when I really should

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020