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• 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 / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... would have made me laugh in astonishment if it did not make me cry. I was ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... people rode the bus, partially because the bus I would take was usually

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... enough in lecture so I have a question to ask them after class. I'm griping less about this class than I normally would is because I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... get as many piercings as I wanted once I went to college. All I would ... pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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 / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  . but what if i don’t? i’ve been thinking about what it would be like to ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend ... naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... happening in the background so I was slightly losing my mind. It was very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• 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 / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  I did something today that I had previously sworn I would never do ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... that they would be shocked if i didn't get accepted. there's something ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could ... told him China. I did not ask if he would have posed this question had I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• 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 / 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
• 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 / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  know or learn the language). People in my high school would forget that I ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• 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