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• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly ... , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  while I ignore the box o' meds under my bed and see if you can hook me up ... my way through the day while my throat felt like raw hamburger was my senior year, when I had to convince my mom that no, this wasn't due to

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

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the ... together into one photo entry so I can move on with my blogging life (and believe me, this time I'm really gonna move it!). My pictures aren't quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  Sciences program, from which both my UROP professor and my postdoc graduated. I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... members who are MIT alums -- they all asked to see my Brass Rat. (One walked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... avoid my fate as a hopeless goop myself. I'm not being particularly ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... exploring the interaction between my protein and one of the proteins I found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude ... -MIT people who are still interested in the minutiae of your MIT life. My ... -- when I came on my visit, I promptly fell asleep at midnight. My host

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Ooops. Oh well. What's interesting is that my second entry didn't happen ... 't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... class demanded, so I had my butt handed to me again and again. I guess the ... there won't penetrate the wall I've gradually built around my ego over

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  , Arizona, my room with blue walls and faded art from past comic-cons. The ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... . June 5th, Copenhagen 6pm They lost my bags in Amsterdam. The man at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... directionless and senseless and purposeless my life feels, like growing numb about the very fact that i'm becoming numb. two. i spent my entire weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... and delivered them to companies and my school's Board of Trustees. I ... course, those practical skills are valuable, too. My freshman year, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my ... toilet.  My dad kneeled behind me, pressing his hands to my stomach to add

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... ) Maseeh Dining (Brunch) This was my first spring break meal, and we were ... compensate for my sad brunch, some friends and I went to Punto Rojo – a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  watching my 3-minute research talk! [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4 ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... essentially let me design my own project based off his work on hydrogels, and so

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW ... , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... because my brain was lagging a little bit."][/annotation] But when I still

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby told me that they appreciated hearing my laughter. I was surprised by how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8 ... breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  student, during my own difficult time, and I could immediately understand her story, even as the details were very different from my own. The ... .   It was October 29th, 2012. My research wasn’t going too great and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016