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• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... point where the new-semester excitement wears off. there's something about

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  the stars over our heads and the dome at the back of our peripheries, we ... blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  when the MIT alum CTO of some hot new startup asks you how you know ... fantastic thing to be a part of. While scrounging for housing at the beginning ... , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... some friends over iap (aka january at mit). one of the more awkward ... ? every relationship is going to produce a decent amount of new anxiety. in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and ... clue. Really all I know is that at the end of the day, I want to be ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... everyone is feeling hosed right now - yup, and it's ONLY been 4 weeks of ... ideas. So, you all probably has heard that "getting an education at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a ... ’ve done at MIT so far (in terms of nonacademic work of course). I’ve learned

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  graduated, starting a new job at a nonprofit. At the end of every work day ... of light up poi at the dance part. I now spend more time with my ... ’t live up to my values or at the supposed lack of external progress in my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at ... at this time of worry, when we have been struck by Tsunamis, Katrina ... should be at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. For more on what Saad

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  around. Surprisingly, I wasn't struggling. Like, at all. The first of the ... extent, in the first semester. I balked at the idea of having one's grade ... continuing. Maybe if I paced myself, I'd be taking in all of the material at a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the ... that lots of stuff got blown up. Well, at least we both wanted to see it ... at the Pizzeria Uno next to Fenway Park. (One of the best things about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  . At the end of this summer, I had two weeks with absolutely nothing I ... think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... only actually spend time at 15-20 of them (I kid -- it's definitely a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude ... First things first: there was another home football game today -- at which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  year—or at least national, but hopefully global, with the idea of ... Friday evening, after getting one of the more interesting emails of ... (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  . Hardi had never cussed at me, much less refused to answer one of my ... after my freshman year at MIT. One of my fellow counselors, Greg, had thru ... . At the end of the summer, he pulled me aside and said, “Gabe, I know it

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  Parisian and Earth Dance, while I've chosen a somewhat bolder palette of New ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening with Ruth painting our new fall rooms. As Lynn Kamimoto '05 would "Ooh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005