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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea ... Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding ... MIT: People Are Good. To some degree, this idea has been reduced to a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it ... requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... application to apply as a visiting student. Instead, individual faculty members must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... . This past weekend, when it kind of cleared up, I decided to take a day ... , it felt like the end of a dream. Not quite like returning back to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I ... that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... $60, and even a set of overlaying stickers, to convert a normal keyboard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  partially true? However, I've been able to find a really welcoming and social ... “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually, I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster ... an hour and a half I feel like I'm at least starting to get skating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it ... to, and when I find them they’re not always relatable--some people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  Texan mind could barely comprehend using anything but a car to get around ... (I've got a whole playlist dedicated to just that), with a backpack, in ... ="126911" image5="126914" image6="126912" /] I'll take a moment here to bring up

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  come from some exotic particle. The trick is to find a LOT of those ... blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  with a cat 38) Listen to music and find new music (Yay spotify!) 39) Find ... results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... alone, where she befriends a dragonfly that offers to help her on her

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point ... find a picture of it online, but apparently I was wrong! I should have ... begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... question: “Are you afraid?” To my surprise, I responded with a serene sense

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... - it's a chance to adjust to MIT and learn the study habits you'll need ... . Remember that compassion isn't a prerequisite to becoming a professor at this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  other, you might find that one class teaches you how to think in such a ... emails to various people and attempting to attend a memorial service held ... this was not a surprise to me). Scale up to a finished product http

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009