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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very thoughtful person, not in the sense that I have good thoughts, but because I am

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... the snipers: As you can no doubt tell, I was a little hyper by this ... 's trail through MIT. We eventually settled in the dining hall, where we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  haven't heard back; I can only assume that Facebook Share is deprecated ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  , departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you live can strongly ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple syrup. Bite me. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  main page. It reads HTML as well so a lot of things can be put in there ... One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving ... student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... whether you can paint your room is one of those little quirks to look at. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  still like a cold, dry, plain sandwich. There are no Publixes where I can ... songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  transportation system in the ceiling where you could put a package into a machine ... watching what groups they self-arranged in. I also didn't fully understand ... in quaint ponds. When we reached the province of Nova Scotia, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... places where e shows up, but many times in engineering exp() and ln() are ... has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... pillow + cover out in Walounge before leaving for winter break, but I had

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , 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

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

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the ... works. So with that established, here at 25 things I've learned in my 25 ... different way of doing it wrong. Sorry Chicago. You can confide in other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... -long "semester" where students can take classes if they want, or just enjoy being ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I ... . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  't find secluded green spots where you can sit and enjoy life. You shouldn ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006