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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  that studies how particular stem cells decide to become different kinds ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this: you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

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

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  'm not sure how to feel about that — aside from old and feeling the ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  , PUF. I don’t know whose nor when nor why nor how PUF managed to get ... to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  EXPLODE about how much we both love anime/Japanese culture (shoutout to Mojo ... okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  I was extremely stoked to finally visit. Not only was it my first time ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one ... , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  answer and provides hints if the student does not know how to approach the ... House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... inspired and ready to accomplish our goals (the "girl power" spirit was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... connected to Star Market, where most MIT students buy their groceries if they ... we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006