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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... nice as Saturne, but still pretty nice--made me a proposition: "if you play me a song, I give you free coffee." Anyway, the first thing that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  previous two things)! The other bloggers were kind enough to let me make ... than the next highest person (me). And it looks like even though Emiko ... streak for Taylor Swift! Veronica also makes a surprise appearance near the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... . So what's been up with me? I passed my finals, and I can even tell all ... a source of great excitement for Hanna '10, who lives near Evanston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  ??? Profit Foolproof if you ask me. The Learner's Permit Unfortunately ... driver’s manual because none of those laws apply to me anymore so I assumed ... , so it was too late for me to do the road test and get the proper

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  a word about CPW! Allow me to begin with an anecdote: Four months ... 'd been working on. The end result of the skit caught me completely off ... Swift - You Belong with Me solo, I thought "Whoa! I know that guy!" (Also

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising me and motivating me with concerts to keep me going and keep me, for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... ; ...and then someone asked me out, I liked to think that I had done a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... academics, and midterms haven't even hit me yet...things are rough. I'm taking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  boarding the plane, my close friend Virginia A. ‘18* asked me how American I ... looking at it is, I’m a foreigner everywhere--people stare at me a little too long because I look different, and constantly ask me where I come

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat ... that, I was teleported to Bill Clinton's office, where he was briefing me ... around me. Then I was teleported to Kibera, the largest slum in Africa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote ... exam, semi-confident in my answers, overhearing everyone around me ... thinking "I'm stupid. MIT made a mistake in accepting me." But I often

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  is right near the range*, so you put on a swimsuit and head on over ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can ... a meeting." Me: "Do you know when the meeting will be over?" Swim

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... kisses in the bowl on the folding table near my seat and popping them into ... “no brainer’ to me that if he could get accepted in this program, then

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  of Japanese have not nearly prepared me for surviving a foreign country ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... around, and say hi to the Amish kids selling baskets on the lawn for me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left ... office shelf. He shakes his head all the more when he hears me yell, "come

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  Hey, everyone. I've been hosed (I know, I know, tell me something ... (yes, that Gillian), who moved to Baker last semester, sent me the ... chef and he introduced me and my gluten-free situation to the other chefs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  when I walked in. Go ahead, laugh at me for overreacting and nearly ... possibly open the mailbox. Not a thing. Some higher power hates me. I called ... him?) She wasn't much better - her words to me consisted of, "Don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah ... river, right near the bathroom and the elevator, in 3rd East. After we got ... , more free food for me, even though I'm not pledging (as much as I may

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006