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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... (maybe two weeks)). A small melted candle (which I would never ever light

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... . i thought my teaching opportunity would come from TAing for a class i ... personal site and hackmit project, that i gradually got enough reps in to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... when I joined in, but we spent the rest of the evening, part of the plane ... accepted. I finished my very first crossword puzzle with Tara in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... ’ budget. I live in Burton-Conner, so I have the choice of enrolling in a ... eat regularly? I couldn’t splurge in Boston every night, and even the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  , I went against my instincts and proceeded toward the signs. I would later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... traumatizing,” I said in relief. “Just glad we found you,” Lee replied as we all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  , I would read the sign on the table I was in front of and discover that ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... forced her to do that because I thought it would be a cool blog picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... one that left MIT. I'd like to think I'm more comfortable in public (and ... , and in them I saw brief glimpses of my future. They were settling in, as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions ... . stealing in that PUF used to scream at me if I didn’t leave an arm outside

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I ... continue to do this semester, but I hope you got the idea that summers in ... , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading ... in Houston, Texas! I am so excited! The company has been sending me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours ... lists built around these cultures. i live in floorpi, which i've talked ... send things a group chat would be used for, like "psetting in the tvl

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... Mechanics, which I took in the fall. Last semester, I learned all about ... this class more than I expected, to be honest. There are just 4 people in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  pool table above the Simmons lobby. I would explain the rules but I ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... all night again.] said that she has NEVER ONCE seen me locked in. And I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed-down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads ... -to-date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... first time. In short, my life has changed. I didn’t know meat could taste

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  since this would be my first time taking others out) In full, I got to ... schedule just the day before their flight! Anyways, I was sitting in a ... ! Immediately, it felt like I had never left. I read in an article that found some

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017