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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I've actually enjoyed my technical classes for the most part. Even then, I still

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet, one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... of conflicting feelings, now nearing the end of my UROP I have truly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... from a meeting in 37-212. My first class tomorrow is in 34-101. If you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book ... 've been around the world, on the phone, at the beach, with a boy. in my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my ... the season (my first race ever!!!), but luckily I had two incredibly

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic ... look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... already entered my mind. And we all know from Inception, an idea is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my comforter and reevaluate my dinner choices. (It's not as bad as it sounds

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify ... MISTI 2.0 to make more progress on my project. I also discovered that I

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my ... would have gone if I had lied about any one of my errors. Honesty works

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  With less than two months left till my MCAT, I've started frequenting the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo/bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... apartment three months after the move, so I wasn’t surprised when my dad ... . We walked into what would eventually become my new home, and there was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if ... with my Freshman Advisor, Phillip Sharp. "Wait, you mean THE Phillip

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... until about halfway through my freshman year because I couldn’t find cheap ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  balls, yoyos, bottle openers, sunglasses, cozies And my personal ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010