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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , because that's where the physics department is, and I'm pretty sure you can ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048 ... can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  take it all in, and I think that’s what MIT looks like overall. If you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in ... check-in until Sunday check-out, I was free. FREE. For a kid with strict

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  part, but I love how people in this major help each other out, lift each ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... lab is not my favorite part, I think. But I like coming in, walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i ... , there was solace in having this one place where everyone could return to ... skill set is not that of someone who can make direct change.  i think i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  around in college. I guess I have to recognize that things can't always ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  contradiction, you can prove anything. I had fun doing this in middle school by ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  world and consider how I'm taking steps (however small) in the right ... you never end up participating in the program, I hope you remember not ... , and all I felt was overwhelming gratitude in the form of tears coming

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now ... ; I feel like I have not run in days like I haven’t slept I feel like ... of spring and what I learned, what knowledge I gained, and I can show

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  of the few meals where I can see the onions and tomatoes go into making ... vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... finished the pieces in this woodshop. It's really the most beautiful loft I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  ’m Kevin, and I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... being Benjamin Oberlton. I cannot say exactly where I am "

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C in discrete math when I took it in high school and I absolutely hated ... confidence in my abilities as a CS person skyrocketed. I was an active

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  , and honestly, it can be hard to tell where to start. I spent a couple ... bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... firehose? Well, this semester I can definitely attest to that. My course load ... classes are all tough, but I take some consolation in the fact that I didn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly ... . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... luckily, I did. You can all send Kaitlin thank you letters for saving the ... -Conner (as well as in Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, and I believe Random

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern with the IoT (Internet of Things) Systems team, where I work on building ... codebase somewhere in the office if I want to ask a question about a method

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018