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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  game i'm going to run. it's set in a magical realist world where ... i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  always on the move, always trying to figure out where the next place I can ... . So cherish it while you can. For me, I don’t anticipate staying in the ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  hating it because it just becomes work. I can't just be in a play, I have ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  read research papers in bed. I answer emails in bed. It makes it to where I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in ... not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  exactly where I work, but I’ll say that it involves tech safety in the ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  now been put in a retirement home where it can consult a therapist twice ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... learning? I found a studio in central Copenhagen and took a trial class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  's where it ends. And now I'm a pilot too. So when last Family Weekend ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a ... ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  in 2009, I was part of the blogging crew. You can’t find my older posts ... start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  at us but before she can say anything I chime in. "We're over 18 ... said "Can I let these two in? They look young." Luckily the guy wasn't as ... bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  somewhere I felt comfortable. Suddenly, I was in this place where there were ... ) in late September, and that I was outside from 2PM-5PM, I'm pretty sure ... , sunburn I did. Anyway. This entry is a PSA for the Overnight Program, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005