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• 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
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  always blurred into the periphery of my vision. But this semester, with four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... things that caught my eye. The Infinite, for those of you who haven

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get ... this first week. I haven’t left my room except to get my second COVID

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice with my team, [annotation ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note ... "]new[/annotation] restaurants and bars with my friends. This month, I actually managed to rack up ... to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020