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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  choice because we didn’t know which groups would respond in time and weren ... the concert, which would’ve been painful and would have resulted in very ... different locations would hear different mixes. then i had the idea of setting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... modern and traditional architecture in Paris. For the next two weeks, I ... Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I ... minutes, I gave in and pushed the orange button. The nurse fluttered into ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... descent in wikipedia rabbitholes [three cool rabbitholes i found: marathons ... thought. If I really buckled down it would be hard, but I'd be able to do it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  it stayed in java i would not be a 6-3 right now. i love typescript ... would've enjoyed it. i keep wondering, would i have liked it more? and in ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

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

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... came after I turned my camera off. See, a lot of you are probably in the ... ’ve ever had… ever. I can’t exactly pinpoint anything in particular (aside

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  7 countries in Europe :p) but I know there might still be awesome pics ... 'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come! You'll have at least 2 weeks to send them in. :) Will post when I get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... I wasn’t in the worst boat—some kids didn’t even know there was a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... time I've ever felt like I was back in high school despite being in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... basically the moment I read it, there was no question in my mind that I would ... in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the ... blog is actually smarter than I am. Do you know why? One time in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  !) question you ask as honestly as I would if I were the one asking.  second ... -7) and math (18) and minoring in writing (21W). This fall I will be ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... are just a part of growing up. And it's somewhere that I thought I would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022