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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a community of care. It's where I cried a lot and made plenty of mistakes that ... sciences & humanities, and I currently can't see myself going back to a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a ... scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from a personal object or from their environment." I previously blogged ... Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I ... Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing

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

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

  

  is the floor plan for the Stata Center... ...I was a little stressed ... work from Professor Tester and Dr. Adams. For example, a grad student in ... . Perhaps the same thing is true for turkey carcasses. I also found out from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can ... for fundraising week when I explained all of this to ArFox, a Course 5 ... stopped paying attention for half a second and got lost.) Since I listen to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... , here I am. Blogging for the first time in three years. A lot has changed ... I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular ... -to-date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  time i'm teaching for a multi-week program. i'm teaching a crypto class ... knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra ... after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane Do I... lack media literacy?

  

  processing for myself? I can't wait a few days and think on it? I've stewed on ... with the MIT D-Lab, for a class I took this semester called “D-Lab for ... letterboxd or something. But because I can’t be bothered to make a letterboxd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 17, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I ... where the pieces were. Before covid hit, I studied in a bookstore where a ... Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  function as a second email address for you; this list name can be longer than ... mildly regret not being rhodeer -- Rho Deer -- just for the humor. I know a ... Hello from Georgia! We had a fantastic meeting last night in Atlanta

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  . i thought my teaching opportunity would come from TAing for a class i ... things with people i enjoy being around. it’s quite uncommon for a single ... money from all the canceled lunch orders and use it to buy more class swag

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  ; this is a case where I can take whichever classes I want and see what ... something fun, something I’d enjoy doing for a few years. Something where I ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... 't even a good incentive to do it, then frankly, I don't know what is. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  hovering over the room… I’m currently reading “On Looking,” a book where ... , view the passerby as a person who is waiting for you to speak to him.” I ... people.   “Take a left where you ordinarily would take a right.” I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... peace sign, but, and I quote, "as an otaku, that can only be 'V for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  when you can message a friend and asking them for help. I have either a ... rewarding experience. Update: I worked out 4-6 times a week consistently for ... refrain from that. Please. And if you're a frosh, for the love of god please

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  . I moved into a coop and learned to cook. I made food for 40 people, I ... like the best place I could ever have hoped to live for those years. A ... ago I came to MIT. After a period away, I recently came back to wear a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017