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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... Library on East Houston Street near Avenue D. "I always wondered why she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  communities and art. I sought that out at MIT, found it in East Campus, Burton ... .009 project. But I’m exhausted, and burnout is settling in. Can I keep this up ... . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a ... when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  frustration into being involved in anything, I’d want it to be East Campus. I ... them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  the impostor syndrome slightly creeping in, where I sometimes question ... to slackline outside Kresge Oval. I found myself returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... IAP, I walked into the MIT Hobby Shop, design in hand, and absolutely no

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... and Conflict in the Middle East. My paper was on the relationship ... down, but not overwhelmed with work. Having been in both situations, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  where people are talking about things I have no idea about, because I can ... setting where I have to discreetly google ‘ramen’ to get some context in the ... speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery ... resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No ... to MIT I'll already have a week done and be in a routine. Since I can ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM ... the summer as something to do when I was alone in my little New York

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher. I can’t find my dishes. I run around Random Hall sequestering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I ... came and went, we’re now in the middle of summer, and last night I couldn ... here I am. Hello again!  I knew I wanted to write something, but in my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... , one that can't be reduced to just "let's do things in-person again!" I ... , I know lots of people who've found some community in their religion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020