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• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  lots of wonderful things that have come from my time in the house. I did ... afternoon I have seen one of the girls in the hall. It always gives me a lift ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  bundle of sadness in my heart; I didn’t even realize it was there until I ... untangling all of this unnamed heartbreak in the presence of people that I have ... time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6 ... look like? My response:   A day in the life of an astronomer! I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  place where I can momentarily escape into a comforting sense of serenity ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can ... friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  textiles! I kind of wish I had put more effort into my projects in this ... result I can't say I'm very proud of everything I made (some of it still ... smearing pastel across newsprint, which is, I think, the soul of art in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  stumbled upon some of their kilns in the Student Center. So, hurray, now I get to learn how to draw! I have a lot of artsy people in my family, my ... they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... theirs, either. In the September of my sixth grade, I skipped a meal for ... capable of doing big things and the first time in my life I didn't feel so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  [/annotation], which is a full-semester version of 6.0001. However, I stayed in 6 ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... ... I read a ton of Shakespeare in high school and college and hated most

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my ... mingle. In this world, anyway, it seems like a minor worry.  As of now, I ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are ... in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... , so I eventually gave up and got down on one knee in front of a few ... aisle. It was the best day of my life. I love being in love, and I loved

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  (Canada/USA Mathcamp) in Portland, Oregon. I'll also be taking advantage of ... stack of books in 4 languages (sorry, German, I forgot you). I wish I ... brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in ... FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in ... family during the holiday season. I love them – they can be connected in ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... , which will continue through the show. I hope you can join us! Paul and

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007