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• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  , hitting bumps, gaining momentum, always just a lurch away from breaking free ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... antiques, books, and CDs. Cambridge is a hip, progressive city with the feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  that my Lolo Ben had Alzheimer's. From a young age, my grandparents ... glasses or his glass of water. And then it evolved into things from a couple ... didn't say much, really, he's not a man of many words. But from then on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high ... Kenya - so will you consider swahili as being a foreign language?" We don

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  best to balance this post and I’ve gotten feedback from a lot of people ... labels meant a lot to him. I [annotation note="In journal entries from two ... when I was too enthusiastic, a hand on my leg to keep it from bouncing

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  our old rice cooker. Yes, a rice cooker.  [caption id="attachment_55827 ... [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my ... , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search. If you are looking for a credible source, try using this link here. If

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window. Sunlight peeled my eyelids open, waking me from my sweet respite. Then Leigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  country as a student, excited to advance my education, but separated from my ... students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are ... decision would "encourage schools to reopen" this fall, a statement that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  Biomedical Research, with shots from my lab and our greenhouse. It's a pretty ... Computational Systems Biology, which can be explored at MIT from three different ... describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  . It's a day long ordeal, with the actual career fair running from 10am ... semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... Bot, "a drink mixing machine that can build a custom mixed drink with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  the map. By launching from the catapult backwards and timing a boost on ... About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi ... ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ."]an aggregation from an association[/annotation], and what makes someone a ... at that list, I could see a noticeable shift from my values when I came ... This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  criticism of a wide range of films, including works from the early silent ... now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester" post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  until a few weeks ago, i'd never had a college spring break (spreak, as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few ... week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  can go from applying to a job to helping to run experiments with kids ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the

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

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  love acronyms) that is designed to give you a platform from which to ... a little bit different from most other students on college campuses ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to ... 's question, and as her answer probably differs from mine, she should feel free ... be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  's officially translated from Ukrainian."]Mariia[/annotation] and I am a first ... in a variety of different clubs and classes, and you will benefit from ... find a place that they can call home. You may not be lucky from the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020