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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  high school days--not because I wanted to be in high school again, but ... school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... for you to drink. There are men in top hats playing carols on trombones

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more ... posting. i just needed to get these thoughts in writing. maybe i'll actually ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to ... "]deluxe version[/annotation] of the game in June, and was expecting it to physically be shipped to me in time for me to play. But since coronavirus has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

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

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... group, I made new friends. In mid-November, I finally managed to finish my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these plans, only to build loftier ones in their place. As we reminisced over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people who might otherwise never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a ... boy to ever confess his interest in me. We had a lot in common, I ... own that he could participate in. And it hadn’t occurred to his

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... gigantic carry-ons into the opposite overhead compartment, you have to get up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and just get to know each other. In the last 1.5 years, I met ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it ... . And you should know that. It also resulted in me getting this delightful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , then read it again. Kirstyn sat out in the hall, on her laptop. To get to ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense ... "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and ... time to explore during the weekdays, and life seems to just be get up, go

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend   fight me if my past self could talk to me We thrash in ... the sky in fury wanting to do everything and nothing all at once.   ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023