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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... beginning of the transformative conquering of my sole remaining fear, writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly, reorganized my room. After attending a synthfest in the Media Lab a while ago ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my laptop case and charger but forgot my laptop. When I came back, I forgot my suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  Guten Tag from Deutschland! I’m writing this from my dorm room at the University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... -week language course. We’ve one class session so far. I can now say: “Hello, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  finished my last final Thursday after two not-so-fun back to back 18.03 and 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... garlic bread that had recently been introduced to my stomach said no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... made me laugh over the past few days. Brace yourself for insight into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... circuit boards are really cool and I'm learning tons about them from my UROP ... Laboratory and do Real Science with my Real Hands, and that's actually exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my ... talking to myself than I did talking to other people. My conversations with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... it’s for something important, like, recently, picking my little brother ... wonderful, because my mom packed me a lunch, but the trip there was less

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say ... 't worry! Me: ...great! TSA Agent: In some ways. Me: Great! Well, here are my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... . Many of my friends were considering minoring, or even double majoring ... broke down a couple times and ended up talking with my parents on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always ... programming on the side. This is the story of my older brother. You see

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers!). As it turns out, my office isn't very far away from where I live. Being able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of ... all my sensibilities, split my chin open during a match. Against my own ... on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  BEHOLD! I MADE FOOD! GOOD FOOD! Remember when I set my IAP ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... this IAP and last IAP was my ruthlessness in adapting recipes. Some were

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... signed my name on so many mailing lists that I honestly forgot what I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010