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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management ... messages, added some people on LinkedIn, said where I was going. I went on ... I can no longer remember everything we did. I'm in Boston again, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  thousand alternate worlds where I spend a summer in NYC in a thousand ... ’m still unclear about my path ahead, I have peace in my confidence that I can and will figure it out. Despite my fears of losing community, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my ... healthy habit or two. setting boundaries where I need them. carving out time

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in ... Sandusky will live the rest of his life in jail. I can't believe that all ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i ... 't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... Bridge ⁠— god i can't even describe how happy this makes me. i love how the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road. That’s in no small part because I really dislike computer SPAM. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... at least one meal. (Maybe I’m only saying this because I can’t really cook myself and I’ve survived this much, but props to the people who can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... notes. Even JBJ himself can't do it anymore. 0x6. Cherry Filter, [I can ... Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  forgot where his queen was, and the way his fingers curled in my hair. I ... off. During fall the producer and I met up intermittently in different ... same. I started going out with strangers when I was eighteen. I was in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on ... comfortable, is really not necessary for your bed. In fact, I fear that it may

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009