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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... sandbox, and the software creates an animated topological map that changes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... 3rd and spent the majority of the day lugging all our boxes from the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the same, of course—the beanbags and squishables in the main lounge were gone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... with the auditorium lights, my excitement and energy was not alone. The night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... (grad behavioral, 14.160, and labor, 14.661), poetry workshop (21W.762

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere ... Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... /No Record basis, and she is allowed to slip. But the lengthy vacation will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  into a vending machine and received 6 (apparently expensive) slips of ... , and somehow found it. Welcome to Japan! I work at a pharmaceutical lab ... ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... have ICE, and we’ve been hearing about it since we joined the department

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  . space. Just kidding, I was procrastinating and liked Lifehouse enough ... Shell And then there was You and Me.  It doesn't even really matter ... this past week, classes went over fine and we're on to the next one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  flame wars and being used correctly, it's also a great way to let somebody ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009