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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a last hurrah, my final journey into the world as a child. I took this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... food…… Oh and I took your iphone earlier because my phone was dead….. And

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance ... 's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... revealed my inner wuss by leaving halfway into the competition in order to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  first this is no big deal, but then the Friday after Christmas, I find my ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my computer, its finally back to running. (Ok, cool part, I managed to trick my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  on speaking terms while my overnight host was a biology major who got ... my host and her hallmates, or the spontaneous midnight tour of the MIT tunnels, or the fact that my host and I found an elevator in the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My ... . Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact that my camera lacks image stabilization doesn’t help… Also, if you don

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... comfiest (sp?) chairs on campus are in my very own place of employment. The ... Conner, except my classes, which are also in Political Science. Dewey is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  When I found out Hank Green would be our commencement speaker, my ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a ... frequent during my junior year, which I think is at least partly attributed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... started rubbing off and making my feet black. There’s this video my parents will randomly send me of little me and my cousins on our trampoline

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent of ChatGPT would mean that all my efforts had been wasted. But AI ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  , ever since i committed to doing ai research after school, my friends have ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole ... if i did understand everything there was to understand about my friends

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  When my friends asked me what my spring break plans were, I said ... [/caption] I found this small sketchbook in my drawer that I impulse-bought from ... or accurate details this time; I just let my imagination run loose

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon ... some governmental history of a foreign country and put my own name down as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each ... as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... purpose that we can keep ourselves sharp around a year ago my friend asked

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  . Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my ... traffic, just the crackle of my wheels on asphalt. And when I go in the ... of the ‘tvte are some I cherish the most. ii. Most of my memories of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... ="I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my UROP mentor and elaborating on just how inspirational and ... a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own ... grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask ... .  When I heard about this latest attack, I immediately texted my friend

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021