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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half ... unsmilingly: “Okay, bye.” On the first afternoon, I walked into the least

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  ?     On Saturday, February 25, 2017, four intrepid biological engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  particularly proficient at garba, we spent a few minutes dawdling awkwardly about ... the other schools to which I'd been admitted. #3 on my list was the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the best of both worlds - I'm a 10 minute walk away from the best parts of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  reaction. 0:01:00 - Start third reaction. One hour and fifty-six minutes of ... things until we close on the 9th. If you're in the area, come see us! It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... minutes. And I wonder, don't the players ever get distracted by this when

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the ... part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... practice, not only do we hang out together, but we also work on problem sets

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am ... , on the plane to [annotation note = "actually Reykjavik, after Seattle ... Danish bus system on six hours of sleep in the last seventy-some, gave up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... , it dawned on me that I would actually be eligible for many internships ... early finish; I’d really like to have more time to focus more on classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  , so I still have to end up walking over (it's about 15 minutes, on foot ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  urchins for the first time and adolescence. It’s a short, satisfying five-minute ... . Instead, it seems, I can eat. I've always liked food, but now I'm bent on ... sweet red beans on top. The Empathy Exams (9783 words). A powerful, moving

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  . First, the “important” stuff: MITES Summer is an on-campus summer program ... , and failure. Fun. IT’S MIT. As new fears kept piling on, I started ... . Engineering Design Each MITES student takes one “project course” - a hands-on

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the ... -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... following semester in 5.13, I had a C on drop day so I disenrolled. Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  'know."]have long since graduated.[/annotation] And, then, that Sunday, on the first ... happy to have gone on. But, the thing I remember most was that, midway ... the museum—maybe thirty minutes, maybe a few hours later—the sky was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I ... out of my hair. I’m sometimes a minute or two late to class because of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  scribbling down cities on a paper, I was going through the alphabet written down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z ... planned.   IV. September 18, 2022. On Sunday, before celebrating

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the ... back as my half blind Lolo would speed his way back to our house on the ... didn't say much, really, he's not a man of many words. But from then on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... disappointing when they don't have alternate summer plans to fall back on. Another ... that is only based on what I’ve personally seen and heard. For better

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016