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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... clothes for years, had the same hairstyle that I had had when I was just a ... . I’ve loved food for a very long time now. Loved eating it, looking at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It ... begged his parents for a lab so he could do his own experiments. He adored

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , searching for a truth we can never reach but that's still worth seeking, I ... only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a ... I can more clearly see when and where the show succeeds and fails, his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds ... interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my ... , it dawned on me that I would actually be eligible for many internships

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  school, I realized that you couldn’t just major in medicine, and for a ... before senior year, I worked on a science article where I talked a whole ... into it. For Course 6, it was a mixed bag, but one I didn’t want to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  at all. I can only work in a field directly related to my major. For ... ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I ... everything can be a material. That all changed after I asked a fellow MITWE

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very ... before leaving MIT. There's a lot and definitely more than I can

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  a need for my work to be appreciated. So that's where I'm stuck ... , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a ... it's difficult to detach myself from what I make. I pour a bit of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  these by distance from where I live. Let me know if there's anything else ... for a swipe I may as well feel like I had a bougie meal. Bake in the ... -classical concert :0 Man am I a sucker for museums! MIT provides free access to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... , you can do the same. Coming from a cutthroat competitive high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... you may know from my first post as a blogger, I did Interphase last summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  approximation for gaze-tracking as a way of figuring out where people look when ... beach for the first time! Hopefully, if I keep doing good research, I can ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  what I do, it always hurt a little bit. [...] I also suffer from "caring ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... by the Globe Sunday said dozens of people worked on the project for months, which they started planning about a year ago after learning a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (< ... , a storm hit Maine. Knocking out the power for several days! I had ... at improving my application, I created a maker portfolio where I showed

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has ... party - I made this in a fit of nostalgia for East Campus parties and it ... playlists that I cannot include on this site for Reasons) There's also a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  UROPing for a few months, I can say this with certainty: the program works ... much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem ... to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  to take a quick break from studying for physics to finish up this post ... the morning. My spot on the bench Me shooting I shot a 513 for my ... pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008