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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... different person than the Maggie from 2008. When I came to MIT, I lived in a ... neighbor Lizz came in to offer her daily dose of humor. “What do you call

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to ... how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because ... , inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker ... , and we are the wine glass, ready to resonate in tune. When the speaker

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing homes, in ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I ... befriend the flame. Similarly, I’ve grown close to the people in the club

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  ’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... of trying to get student rush tickets for Wicked (the untold story of ... had to go see it and make funny faces at her in the booth and show my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... from my cozy double in Burton-Conner. It’s the perfect time to update my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... are scared and we aren’t sure when things are going to get back to normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  our row in Symphony Hall. So, I asked the funnylookin guy next to me ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... news is that I might still get to meet a reality show contestant--I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  ; Basically, Julie, who AFAIK had no background in the sciences before coming to ... allows me to do just that - I get to create organisms with fun properties ... . Bioengineering is going to drive the next century in the same way electrical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... . This wasn't something that I considered when moving in, but being able to ... the hall, but it matters to me so it’s on the list. Last year in Baker

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to ... difficult to get out of it. We are literally fighting an algorithm designed to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  my mind—so clear, they felt real—but they would get lost in translation to the page. One instance of this happened in high school robotics ... nothing. This difficulty in depicting "real" things led to my interest in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  to even be at this point. To even get to be in the shoes to say that ... . That summer was, in short, an amazing epilogue to freshman year, an ... very incorrect. We went to a camp in the middle of the desert that was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018