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• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  really should have come back before then--I owed Chris a blog about the ... in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... course...)  Startups are hard. I worked long hours, and while in China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  internship, and I must say it's been quite an adventure. I've settled into a schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely know a lot more about stepper motors, C, and MATLAB than I did two weeks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second ... before I decide who gets what in the cemetery, I promise I'll still be fair ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  was both a blessing and a curse, since I'm finally not in a massive ... slowly in your mouth is much stronger than normal chili peppers). I have a ... I had a really good preparation in AP Chemistry), it gets pretty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  aquaporins in a vacuum and you should always trust physicists about their ... proportions of aquaporins in a cell are   2:41 am: today I learned that ... ’s bedtime I am going to email my supervisor for a sanity check maybe I am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... little ahead by running a protein gel -- I had run the samples before and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a ... "the child of a Foxconn line operator in China." But according to Forbes ... I'd short in a second if given the chance. The truth is that if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  Partners @ MIT. Very helpful! A revision A few entries ago, I said For what ... in this issue and organized. It has happened before that a certain ... was in a HASS last semester that only had seven students in it, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  , a "skybridge" did. (In retrospect, I should've expected it; a ... Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance ... ' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non ... -soda-and-vinegar vocanoes, I should have been grossly underprepared for a class that covered

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me ... overreacting, it was still me who wrote this, two years ago. do i not trust

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... appears to be a three-headed camel. I'm not sure what a three-headed camel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... was a baby bottle stuck in the toilet. while I'm glad no one had a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  ’re going to run in the coming weeks. I’ve been tasked with putting mice in a ... in my room for a few minutes, and I discovered that the vitals log is ... tonight before the real thing tomorrow. As a side note, I'm teally enjoying

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  respond to questions, such as, "Hey, I read that a hospital in your ... post in the series, I just wanted to share a goofy photo from the African ... staff, Hassan founded a “Hacker House” in San Francisco during the summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China. Conversation (always) goes like this: I haven't visited China since I started

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  cake at Downtown Crossing, before driving back to campus in time for a ... spending about an hour in the aquarium, we took a Harbor Cruise, before ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they

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

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  film. I've had a blast in this class all semester, even if lugging heavy ... cool and [annotation note="i found when after shooting what i thought was an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  as not a sore loser. it is okay but duh I think we should've won lol ... )!   [annotation note="Important: I rank things on what is a perfect ... participate in a MISTI program, among other things."]IAP.[/annotation] Along

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025