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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... minute -- did I mention F/A-18s? Those would be the Blue Angels, the ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... . Last week I pretty much lived in the Stata Center while taking ESD.950

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... So, MIT is hard. I figured this out after I noticed that I’ve stayed

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn ... (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer ... last year/beginning of this year, I feel really included in what is going

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  all day to tell me, because she knew I was involved in FIRST in high ... spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  actual novels in this language. i was actually what you would consider ... just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... if I ever tried to touch anything more than an off/on switch I would be ... easily. "Every time there was a new subject or a quiz I would be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... and trying something new. I would consider myself practiced at about ... eat fire. This would make the post too long, so I’ll maybe talk about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... shavings in my hair and sawdust on my jeans. I had grand plans for our team ... team captain, in my junior year, as well as coach for our drive team. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... spending a leisurely afternoon in the humanities library. As I was leaving, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... where I spent my days eating Steak n’ Shake and fishing in the lake by our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... discussion of shear stress. This week in 10.302: Transport Processes, I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021