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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can ... . I take a five-minute break to check Facebook for messages, and spend ... grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  search for transiting exoplanets pushes CCD instrumentation to its ... got to be in California. Classes prepare you for all the research (that ... 're told to respect the volume (they cost $40 on special order) and fill the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  parts white for murals and to save on paint costs. In my free MIT ... parent’s wishes. I asked for purple walls when we first moved to the ... child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... difficult for me to pinpoint what i got out of the program - i learned a bit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much ... .006 - Introduction to Algorithms 6.006 was my earliest class, so my attendance for it ... between my love for art and a self-imposed pressure to create things–but not

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  schoolers.[/annotation] My day-to-day for February was pretty full. Apart from classes, I’m a lab assistant for 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning, and ... Huling El Bimbo for an International Mother Language Day event. I went to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  for my pod and me to goof around was appreciated. I also, for some ... walls IMO add a cool aesthetic to the place, but it's definitely not for ... enjoying it. That was until I was no longer able to eat Macgregor food for a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it

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

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  to ask for guidance when I needed. As it turns out, extra force was ... anyone to see the dents. This was a fairly low-cost way to cement the ... excited to come back to it! The earrings were for a St Patrick’s Day party

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... . Highly recommend, and I'm super excited for them to be opening a location ... could ever hope to experience in Boston. For this trip I returned to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... with incomes of $200,000 to $300,000 applying for need-based aid," says ... .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or ... to my point. I no longer have to cook for myself. This semester marks ... ’t have to cook, the time I used to leave for preparing dinner seems to have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... ) has two GRTs who have open door policies for students to come to them if ... floor to take a break from their work to hangout and socialize for a bit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  time constraint. It had to tie in somehow to the class theme for the ... navigation systems for motorcyclists. One of several cyclists they’d talked to ... you want the laser to traverse the pool for, essentially defining the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  someone [annotation note="which, for the record, I am paid to do"]I write ... live my life avoiding conflict at all costs, which hardly lends itself to ... Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  the sun, begging to be picked up but at such a large potential cost ... me: I like math. I like education. I like to write. For the ... can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... started rambling off the answers to their questions without waiting for them ... in the ER and will provide them to you all for your entertainment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  seriously discouraged or injured compared to training for the longer mile ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets ... college was I going to land at in the US? I had a girlfriend then. We would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  . things are okay. things have been okay for a while now. i go to bed and ... students association, and also webmaster for the puzzle club, and i go to ... lot i don't really have anything to complain about right now, because i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021