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• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  normal.   In a lot of ways, though, this is all very weird. The last ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... April, but in reality, last spring was just a very poor approximation of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5 ... race that's 10 miles or longer in length. In a fit of madness I ... minutes, which is what I used for my proof of time for Disney. Next was a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the ... walk around carrying a trumpet out of its case in one hand all day. Of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool because my one requirement for a job this summer is NOT TECHNICAL. So she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half ... Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned ... that I go here. Not even in a "I belong here!" sense, but that I am a) no ... drinking a lot of caffeine. I'm majoring in course 20 (bioengineering) 89

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  graduate school a.) is best taken early on in your college years when you ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... .186 Mobile Autonomous Laboratory (Maslab) (as a TA): This is an advanced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for ... , of this weird in-between state I've been inhabiting – is basically in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... whatever this is (a blog post? A stream of consciousness diary entry? The ... this is a good metaphor. It's more like an increasingly simmering volcano

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie ... enhancing acoustic quality. 4.502: Design Scripting. A new class, this one is ... . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  :) Harry: In a way, everything I am doing now is South-Dakota-related as I am ... .[/annotation] The state is one more thing to have in common with someone, and it is a ... Baum lived there for a while. Fun fact: Kansas in WoO is based on his

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first ... decided immediately to live in a non-meal-plan dorm and cook all my meals ... Over half of IAP is left.  Some stuff I'm looking forward to: a La

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... , sustained periods. What's sprinting for us, is a comfortable pace for them. A ... ; ^ a non-metaphorical sprint, from a past weekend in Big Basin.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in

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

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time ... I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates ... in her room and didn't even realize that... a few...had leaked out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  surrounding djent.  Wikipedia says that djent is in fact a genre, specifically ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... ’s not apparent, this is a joke (well this whole blog is a joke) and music

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023