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• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... architecture less. In fact, I actually really like and admire the process of ... commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  plan. He agreed to help, of course. Alan: I sat quietly in my room ... the story is, of course, much more interesting. CJ: In EC, I walk up to this innocent desk worker. For the life of me, I can't remember who it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" - a pretty good short story I read in a Spanish ... thinking about buying a baton in June, kind of just for fun, but haven ... to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I ... the frenzied atmosphere within, but not really. As I said in one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of ... make [annotation note="i can teach anyone to make dotted lines in 20 ... ="60369" /] However, I’m not the kind of person who can [annotation note="rip my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about ... independently of camp, and that it's something that I can seek out and create and ... "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  classroom - it happened in the sleazy bars of Madrid, the intriguing i ... The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  United States for about two weeks, whereas I spent all of this summer in ... 've never had an In-N-Out burger you can't even begin to understand what I ... college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  : *eye roll* Not all of SD is farmland; I’m from Rapid City, which is in the ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... cultural zeitgeist in South Dakota; I know a lot of people at MIT who have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... one of CCD and CMOS yields better image quality. I personally can’t tell ... Swedish Academy of Sciences[/caption] An Integrated World Of course, I can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to MIT, one of my concerns was that if I graduated from here, I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... the town of Hull. "Why not just build three windmills then?" I asked. We ... with the Boston Phoenix last year. So, in groups of five we somehow made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  friends and b) a lot of the people I knew were planning on staying in ... across the river in Boston itself. I liked the location of the apartment ... section of the city. MIT exists in a sort of bubble, and it's so easy to get

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why ... i wonder if i ever will perhaps this is all in vain, some kind of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  been building since Thursday. Since I hadn't been in charge of the ... that I've had in a very, very long time - it was great to see all of East ... Bar feels like the end of an era :( can’t wait to be in Nisha’s shoes in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... other things, but mostly taking in the quiet of the city at night. Amber ... day off after the last day of classes, I let myself sleep in. I spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted ... inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016