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• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  those by associate advising and freshman orientation responsibilities (including an awesome evening of teaching that I will post videos of soon), and ... wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... , and want to blog a bunch! Maybe I have a seasonal writer's block… This semester I’m taking four classes: 2.007, 2.086, 6.1010, and 21

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  week and then get off early on Friday. That changed a bit this week ... the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and ... Boston Pops concert the night before the 4th and I figured the 3rd of July

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  like books I’ve read this year, events I organized, art I made, and even longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and things I want to build. I have more ideas than I have time to execute and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... incredible musical journey throughout my life and I thought I'd try and take ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... -- important extracurriculars, mandatory tidbits and facts, quirks and ... : bioengineering nonprofit organization equality in STEM and social justice

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  engineering, both civil and mechanical. “Uhh, copper?” “No, like, music.” “Oh ... . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... the first night.     While waiting in line, my friend and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  share with you guys what me and Nathan, my project partner came up with ... 128 x 128 images, each depicting a scene, and each labeled with one of ... , golf course, and supermarket.  For the final project, our mandate was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and ... dedicated to Laura and Ben Jones's Mom, both of whom are celebrating their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  course! That Saturday was the Manchester FIRST Regional, and I was psyched ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... during my junior year of high school, and it was seriously awesome. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  things. But if someone told you that they’d have flight AND strength AND invulnerability AND heat vision AND frost breath AND … AND … AND… You’d call them ... and pumped into by big corporations. I thought he seemed like a Boomer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio manual. I took the test, got my license, and joined a local [annotation ... met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  , elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but ... seemed very friendly and flat with bike lanes. My first attempt ended with ... mind, hitting a sidewalk crack and falling straight to my knees. I put

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014