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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... advice and self-help content, whether in the form of long-form blogs by ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... before me, both in this country and in mine, the difference being that the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning, my changes in perception of various aspects of life, living in an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  its capacity, 18. The driver sat us in the back, and fit more people ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that ... provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021