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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  days of my MIT career, to see the entire community come together so ... the MIT community. So, as soon as the website went live, I submitted my application, including a sound recording of me giving an excerpt from my talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... something other than the IV sticking into my arm. I noticed a particularly ... . He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have ... on my iPod Touch, things I should remember to mention on my blog. Each ... something that happened at high school graduation. A tradition existed at my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  was one of these spirals. I wanted to finish my [annotation note ... /Thursday and then study Friday/Saturday/Sunday for my Monday exams. But then I ... /physics chaos, but just like traditional bad vibes"]chaos.[/annotation] If my ΔG

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  nearly two years ago, I co-wrote this blog discussing my experiences ... did my freshman year. my decision to commit to Kinematix full ... served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... lot. Additionally, I've been attempting not to repeat my ... ever and spent time with my [annotation note="In Greek life you typically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... started the weekend off poorly. My only class ended early and told us that ... the very end of the break. This soured my mood for most of Friday

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  internship; the world would be my oyster. And I was right about those things ... that. Hell, I did last IAP with my two classes. At the same time, I narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... out a large survey [annotation note="checking my emails from ian waitz ... being the final plan. And so, I held off on declaring my gap semester and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up during my sprint. I've spent this past semester doing so much and learning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  wanted to become an economist. That one actually stuck. My parents come from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• 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