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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and ... “girly girls” were smart. When I grew up a little I started to feel the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from ... high school, I think YouTube had just started to become A Thing, so

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find ... 'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  help with a pset problem, when they had to explain it four different ways ... ’t come to MIT on an equal playing field. My friends came in with a massive ... I find myself comparing where I’m at to where my friends are at, I sit

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  to find another station entirely once I got there.  Sure, this is a ... Terrascopers from Mission 2016 bond as we await to board a plane to Houston, then to Las Vegas, then a bus to somewhere mountain-ey. (Look they did

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

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

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT ... (especially med school), they will recalculate your GPA to fit into a 4.0 scale

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream ... to run to a class and then an advising appointment. and then i have to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... for a semester.  The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  to spend a miniature fortune with me, portmanteau'ing two meals into ... walked over to Craigie on Main, a cozy upscale restaurant just around the ... fresh corpse lying in a puddle of caramel gore. (Despite my attempt to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... during speed dating sessions and discovered a way to predict whether

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Saturdays, we'd wake up early to walk a beautiful two miles from our ... the elevator to the [annotation note="It's card-access only, but a ... libraries lack. I've been to Harvard dorms where the whole thing feels like a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  ’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know ... ’m only a little embarrassed to admit that I used to feverishly consume ... now about giving advice to other people. so as a disclaimer, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so ... inspiration since it would be easy to mount on the gun since the gun required a ... , Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... a yearbook photo. I've narrowed it down to these, voted most popular ... conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... on a daily basis. If I actually did want to publish a paper on the ... individual chairs to corners and such. I find this lounge the most visually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  I am flying back to Boston tonight (why do I always book redeyes?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I ... of all of the fun I have been missing. I am involved in a couple of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  tradition over time. If a hall wants to be known for something, it can be ... find what they're looking for right here. (This is a personal opinion ... you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  unexpected diversity,  I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency ... sure you need to give your real call sign” “That’s totally a real call ... to see a group of sketchy looking people huddled around a small table

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023