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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  our tent. I finally found the perpetrator: an old man in a yellow rain ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  , Blow the Man Down, [annotation note="Lore I have to share: The story for ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  . i turned 21. the semester finally ended, and people started to slowly ... standard for meetups."]high school friends[/annotation] and the two days i ... seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ="aligncenter" width="500"] a poster I made for MIT Gala, Infinite’s end-of-year launch ... , Angela Z. ‘24, and I took this for an assignment centered around long ... cartoonist. My high school English teacher was a huge fan of Barry, and I knew

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  ... and so so so so much more. i don't know, man. this is probably going ... ) "i tend to end my posts with a vague statement of hope, and this one is ... elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then ... . Backpack flapping and two coats, a hat, and a scarf tucked under my arm, I ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  's "firehose" was an old man at a urinal. But this too I survived. Along the way ... and I [annotation note="Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man ... -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  . Turns out, I’m a terrible liar. Around the end of mile seven, I watched ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  our NSDA district's national qualifiers, back when I debated in high ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to expect them, but when they do occur, they do feel motivated. Of course I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I felt like I couldn't control was my high school and honestly....... It ... continue I am not bashing my high school, nor any other middle class suburban

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT ... , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... ) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  leave. When I see the possibility of an ending, do I act any differently ... didn't. Another end: when did I realize I wanted to leave my last job ... guess another reason I think about this ending so much is that I never got

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  with professors: I hold professors in extremely high regard; they lead ... 'm from Long Island, NY. Besides being involved in Tea with Teachers, I am ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  the other end of that blog) I wanted to write this entry last year when ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to, but I feel like we're connected on at least some minor spiritual level

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  about this, since (as stated above) I was in band in high school. The band ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  ? Maybe I'll get in touch with my cosplayer friends from high school and see ... -or-treating and mooch candy from all your GRTs? Aww yes. I, for one, opted for going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... of them. If I ended this entry now then you'd get all bent out of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... cubes for reasons. Oh man, I got lost so many times. See, Simmons is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016