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• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... studying and Justin looked right at me and said, 'What's Gauss's Law?'" "I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end of west campus. Especially because Boston has stupid weather. But Adam ... to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  . He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little ... , reminiscent of the times I ambitiously filled shelves with my clothing at hotels ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . Writing has become a part of my life in ways I haven’t quite expected. At ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  meshed at the end of the year and we’d spend every friday hanging out in ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... getting much out of all of this, it all did come at a cost: the opportunity

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  large rock. Bodies of water have an unwritten contract: if you look at ... of my life, and I like to tell myself, at least, that I’ve done the ... Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies ... hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of ... practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... Media (Seth is the head of the Science Writing program at MIT, one of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  program at the same campus (SSP Ojai 2006) my junior year of HIGH SCHOOL ... they're roommates! So all of us are doing well here at Sinai, and after ... of time, Simmons Hall opened during his senior year at MIT. It was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts ...   On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  at all, and it would be sad but indicative of the fact that there's a ... and many other communities I'm familiar with at MIT, a lot of traditions ... freshmen. So, at the end of the day, traditions aren't super important and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  big presentations per year? They're usually at the end of a unit or ... snowballed into a lot of repressed anger and frustration being released at each ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated ... specific model from a book owned by one of my previous professors at MIT ... About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  at The Institute totally drives homesickness out of your mind simply ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  you'd probably be happy at any of them. Your experiences at each ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012