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• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  A [annotation note="at the time of writing"]few days ago ... think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the ... memories of my past grow hazier. I'm fortunate my journal captured at least

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un ... on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... . Mountains, denser houses than I had imagined. Lots of farmland at the foot of ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  from classmates, and keep your finger on the pulse of life at MIT! You ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very

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

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... , analyzing some of the coolest art I’ve ever seen at the outdoor deCordova, and ... home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... student, you might be very confused at this point. But if you've spent ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  in something here, you know that you're capable of that skill at a top ... when your biggest worry is a math final at the end of the month, you ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... offered at the aquarium, then visit for the aesthetics- the dimly lit ... John Harvard Statue at some point in our tour, this being the origin of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  ? As Purple Team explained, a 3.5 degrees celsius rise in temperature of ... running. I began screaming. At first, it might have been a scream of joy ... . However, it is quite heavy, so that at the end of a loop, the stand operator

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  senses it's actually old"]new[/annotation] point of view, staring at my ... , [annotation note="at the end of a long list of authors, but still something ... sometimes feel like it has come at the cost of "having a life." Most weeks, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... 't make sense to major in, say, Literature, at MIT (which I sort of agree ... HASS requirement. How many different languages are offered at MIT? 9

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... , network neutrality is a matter of ensuring basic democratic equality (or at ... ’s continued pursuit of neutrality (or at least the appearance of neutrality

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  notion of a ‘lukewarm life’ jumped out at me. As a freshman, I found that ... perpetually feel at risk of falling behind, it’s hard to convince yourself that ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024