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• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ... Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  book and painting a Christmas present for my sister as i watched anime ... choreograph dances for multiple hours a day, make art, and spend hours listening ... broke out a kids chess CD from a decade ago just for kicks, and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake ... ’t hard: we cook for each other, which means that dinners are vegan, and I’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... screen will come down for a karaoke party. Singing skills not required ... the night. When is a good time for it? I have yet to know. That project

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a ... started blogging, I wondered for a while what my "writing style" was ... college for the first time. I haven't seen my room in a while, I'm much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  reschedule all 4th of July festivities for last night as a precautionary ... Charles. As for me, a group of people who normally live in B Entry packed ... ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some ... wizards and warlords? Perhaps a primitive clamor for crops? An unusually ... safari. She also insisted I begin a web journal which sounded like a simply

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -interfering RNA (siRNA) in mice. It may seem odd for a student like me, who plans ... goes well, this mouse model can be used to create a therapy for influenza ... in the lab for a month, but I have already learned an immense amount

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  were three of us, because we were searching for a short-term lease in short notice, or because it was the Bay Area? We settled for a one ... leftovers stayed in our fridge for a month. Evidently, we thought we'd be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult at a hair doctor and they told me there was nothing they could do for

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready ... probably 6:30 or 6:31 pm. We logged in. Our letters wouldn't load for a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  analyze. I found a native speaker ([annotation note="Shoutout to him for ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... 3.020 each counts as a half CI-M because of course 3 lore reasons"]one-and-a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... might help you be a good lawyer, but it does nothing for you on the LSAT ... Outside Awards form that asks for a copy of any instructions from outside

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  the States for university that you'll cast a wide net -- not just MIT ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... , no public transportation necessary. For a Carvel ice cream store, you ... /neuroengineering would be excellent prep for a PhD program in neuroengineering -- my friend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  15% hazelnut back". I like hazelnut a lot, so this was a win for me. I ... flavor was somewhat pleasant for a bite or two. I definitely still did not want to go back for more. Gingerbread: These were pretty good! A welcome

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :') My goal is ... thinking about a lot is my major, Course 20: Biological Engineering. My classes before this semester were a mix of[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025