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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a ... the rest of my life." [...] "I think it's recognizing the responsibility," he says, "especially like in my family in Georgia. My mom is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and ... thought I could split my experiences across three entries--kind of like "The ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... has played a central part in my experience here. It gave me the opportunity to continue playing the sport I love and I’ve even met some of my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock ... right outside my house, even if they are no longer quite green from being ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  by Fatema’s older brother Sayeed, also an MIT alum"]my friend Fatema ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... before, my freshman summer. I was thinking then about sororities, the only ... several of my friends did, and decided whether they did or didn’t fit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all ... instead to meet my deadlines and work on projects I've been dreaming about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a ... sure i literally burned those...oops"]my old notes[/annotation] from some ... the concepts vaguely take shape in my mind, but some of them still seem

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  things to blog about. But, since it's my last semester as an undergrad, and ... "] yes, my friday is completely empty. please clap[/caption] CMS.701 ... , which I've somehow managed to put off until my very last semester. We read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... Arbery. My mind was overcome by the brutal and “rightfully deserved ... fact that there was a video showing these men in the act. My blood boiled

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Bloggers”. It’s a CPW staple, a truly iconic event. I missed it during my own ... ’ve learned to embrace my sort-of-awkward communication style, and now I feel ... remember crying to my mom because I felt like I couldn’t connect to my

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... 've been managing/mismanaging my time since the WFH-life started up, and how ... sight either Even my cat looking at me like "yo what are you still DOING

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... the other things that I've been filling my time with that aren't my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  .73 is Esther Duflo, the Economics Nobel Prize winner this year. It’s my least favorite class but it has my favorite content.)"]21M.734, 21G.501 ... jokes and incredibly well-thought storylines? My floor played it until 4

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... but one of my recommenders wants to see my essays to help write his ... about making applesauce [annotation note="My last post was supposed to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene.[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin ... 't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  tend to become quizbowl history."]negs.[/annotation] One of my favorite ... my first college quizbowl tournament!!! It was the aptly-named Early ... , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of ... . For what it's worth, my significant other Joanna lived in Fifth West

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an ... my horror, Trader Joe's had neither puff pasty nor brie, which didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017