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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without: My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  encounter over the course of one semester at MIT. And lucky me; that week I had three exams: [annotation note="Language and Its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics"]24.903[/annotation] on Tuesday, [annotation note

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  , late night talks, and going on adventures - come say hi at CPW!"]B1 ... are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... rooms are well decorated with posters and projects, and they're full of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost ... 't realize there was no kitchen at all, just a sink, a microwave, and some ... 's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break Mariia and Raymond My roommates Mariia and Raymond have been working on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and i honor and respect the many diverse indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... and a friend as years went by. Freshman year was a shitshow. I could ... from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... outside, that there must be light, that I must have a dry seat and a wifi ... rules and following them unswervingly. 4.11A: Architecture and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... living group (ILG) pika, and assorted other folks. We have strong support for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... , which both Robb Carr and Rhiannon Carr (not related) showed were probably ... . 2. Arturo asked about Mexican food on and near campus (also about more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new car smell." Delicious. I got in, turned the key, and heard that throaty

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  i did nothing these past two years, part 1 starting over?

  

  boisterous proclamations of lemonade encased in sweat and retreat to air-conditioned dorms, and had i not declared bright-eyed to my postdoc supervisor that i wanted to continue this research for another semester? and had he not said

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 4, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  week after MIT's. But, I ended up taking an additional 2.5 days off and ... , however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ... Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an ... differences between this country and ours. For example, Canada uses the metric

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  , and action team. As I said then, we had been (and still are) kicking around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... , the communications coordinator for MIT Student Life and erstwhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... , and found my roommate at his desk. After seeing my puzzled look, he said, “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... Happy Hour and just tell you guys a few things that made me happy this ... can also enjoy (called the Zaxxon Rule) and the post shan't be too long

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014