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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  connects the subway, buses, and trains. My friend Seema '09 (Course 14 ... Saturday afternoon, my friend Nicole '07 (Course 8: Physics) and I spent a ... . After spending 45 minutes assuaging in my fears in the paper aisle, Nicole

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  me uncomfortable to be Facebook friends with so many people I don ... be best friends and you don't end up getting accepted, it's not going ... GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE part two, which took place two days ago

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  , last summer, talking to my friend Alicia '06, I found that Parafilm is ... because my friend Ariel '09 is writing a paper for Colossal Failures in ... the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... research assistantship at Draper Labs, and I've only taken three days off my ... hour away from MIT in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Adam's friends from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer ... started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the ... . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  #help in the The Chaos Table Discord, which is a channel my friend group ... Media Lab, a classmate accidentally shattered my laptop screen. While I was with my group presenting our project, I left my coat on a chair

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  friends because they don't live in my house and I barely get to see them ... meet with friends spontaneously. I'd paint in my room on the weekends and ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  . My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son ... My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... . (Mind you, I'd recently taught my son to say "Miss April, you are so

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... ’t worry, ispace didn’t give up there. As part of my internship, I was ... -tall lander was actually built. Every day, I put on my lil' uniform consisting

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... ) wristband. Happy Monday, MIT! Also my roommate picked up my first paycheck in ... practice, a friend from Technique, the yearbook, photography, and design club

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  to go watch my friends from Baker House play intramural hockey. They ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of ... the phone rang I used my best telephone voice, promising dutifully that

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  friends finally showed up to the hotel.   roughly 3 a.m. Thats my ... universe that my close friend Stephen Hawking is still trying to reconcile, I ... so instead my new friends Danny and Jennifer and I head over to Alpha

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog ... my current situation, but I can't remember it because I didn't end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  recently"]will.[/annotation] This is a polaroid of my friend, Inna, in ... recently to buy my friend a porcupine quill as a belated New Year's gift ... Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it ... and confided with my family and friends. But getting excited about the ... fewer at MIT, one fewer with my friends here. I would be one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  that night nibbled on my soul. i promised a friend who performed that i ... several minutes. i saw my friend, the one i made a promise to, at the front ... else in that party. and it's not like i was going to talk to my friend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  of them are pretty obscure.) In the main lounge, my friend Lauren W ... achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even ... mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013