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• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  life is more calm than it used to be in a way i didn't use to appreciate ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of ... . and i'm there multiple times a month, and it is a joy to keep him in my

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... should join it! Use it to find new friends, new roommates, and for support ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... , probably something I'm overly sensitive to, having spent a number of years in ... , imagine a different world, and then find a way to get there. You may find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  not being in a music department We went to an art school for 9th and 10 ... . Upon finding out that college was a thing, we made more or less a pact to ... ” and research a try For a while in high school we thought we wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... older gentleman mentions to me that he used to do testing in the Alumni ... Dave Schloerb. His senior thesis was designing a speaker to be used

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... 100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  . [/annotation]I love that I can find a new topic to obsess over, email people, and ... in -- and then I came to MIT and spent a solid month of my first UROP ... spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... imagine, but in a nerdier way. I walked into a giant warehouse last Monday morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... ! Summer before freshman year = time to relax."]desperately needed a break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  , especially in this very park. I used to find that suffocating, that there were ... words, a quick laugh in the hallway. Having them notice you seems to be of ... graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  cream related terms that you might only find in the northeast, so if ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a ... pathways to chemistry that is actually occuring in a particular process (eg ... detail it's possible to use when learning material in upper-level courses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ); sending in a strong application is all you can do to "influence the RSI ... . I sent in a CD with my application, not to be picked apart for ... in a CD. We provide the music CDs to the faculty to evaluate talent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language ... 't want to pursue a career in music. She ended up going back to a ... From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... -wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Mike in this more serious one to a lighter show like Devil Beside You or ... giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• 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 ... friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  Pleasure Educator to tap you in after-hours. In addition to a very wide ... this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  that uses these answers in order to find a new answer. For example, if ... . Then, there’s a phase where you use this data to find the final answer ... runaround was a sheet of paper that we used to find the answer. We were the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020