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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  thing was from a display in the airport. I was looking for more proof that ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... airport before our next flight. Joe and I stepped outside for a bit, just to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  mechanism, but it worked for a few days.) Finally, I got tired of racing home ... saying that I got a big envelope from MIT, asking if I would waive the fine ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  critic (I sometimes describe my cuisine experience to whoever is out for a ... do   I've been creating a lot, recently away from the noise of ... black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  main quest, really, more than it is a sidequest - and I can see it mapped ... this time, I translated my dislike for conceptual computer science into a ... when I'm working as a backend engineer for Twitch. Will I do this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  second way I changed while at MIT can be summarized in a quote from this ... the same in many too. I came from the Bay Area in California, a place I ... glancing off of it, and I would wince and then smile a bit from the sensation

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the ... There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  close and I can't think of a time when there's ever been a serious ... a hard question for me to answer, because I tend to have an internal ... really can't say whether I would have picked Harvard over MIT for undergrad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... (these are after all new faces in a place I was setting foot into for the ... , I check Facebook instead, where a group chat with members of the ASA

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  classroom … etc. and 2) Open up! …I can think of a handful of situations where ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  !). As it turns out, my office isn't very far away from where I live. Being ... early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his ... - and on days where I'm simply there for other business or for friends - I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban ... get a few additional features if you are a student! I love Notion for a ... blog, I'll show you an example of how you can use Notion for working on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  difference. And that is how I can tell my reality from my trauma. And for that ... seeing straight A's except for an A- in calc. From there on, I promised I ... Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  counties over. Or maybe you’re from a small town where Friday night football ... Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... I fly a lot. Fact: aside from April and July, I’ve flown every month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  Orchestra has a program for college students, where for [annotation note ... 's performance of a violin concerto—a violin concerto for which I played in the ... pictures of him, so I have a picture of him from every rehearsal. [carousel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... ICE 15 minutes before the deadline, I was indeed a little bit ready for ... demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  from the rain. I walked down Elm for a while, and noticed...the Porter ... (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a ... in Pasadena. I felt dumb, but I hung out at Rax's house for a few hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  almost 2000 words to say, but after sitting on it for a month this is all I ... both as a creative outlet for students interested in the culinary arts as ... air. I needed it, both literally as sustenance and fundamentally as a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023