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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  ominous - “Important news for the Senior House community” - which then was ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  Nina Lutz for multiple hours in editing, to my family for being awesome in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for participating, and then of course everyone at MIT for appearing)!!! If you would

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (I owe Prof. Bahr for much of my current reading ... text was still confusing him. He handed me a board marker and asked for ... annotated Gorgias will travel with me to Marburg, Germany, for an intensive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  life shoves you. *(Credit for this analogy goes to retired astronaut ... rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... .  I went to the career development office for mock interviews.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  looking for a program that didn’t promise that and rather had a different ... offer me the experience I was looking for. Although not many students ... with Cambridge University; MIT Madrid, which sends students for a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit ... note "it's for your own good." Or maybe not. But people get too worked up over bacon; when I tell people that I don't especially care for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... summer. I checked out the Banditos Misteriosos website for the details. The ... for a battle in a specific location. I instantly registered and made Dan

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  horns every second, toss in a few bulls for good measure, and you have ... large number of sustainable livelihoods, including for the rural poor and ... Association), a trade union for “women who earn a living through their own

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... 't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... , get ready for the Great Injustices, er..., the General Institute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... you were willing to knock on enough doors and really fight for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool ... deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper ... for "freshman," and "pre-"... well, you get the idea. It's interesting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for ... designed machines and built things with my hands, but then I ached for the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several ... , make coffee, drag myself over to my desk, code for a couple of hours ... some more work, before logging off for the evening and going out: to meet

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a ... 's not terrible, and it's ten dollars, which is cheap for ramen here. but ... friend-slash-bride getting separate dresses for the ceremony and the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... language skills. So for instance, if I want to practice Spanish, and since I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing ... for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  for my two midterms. I also ordered a pink Among Us pinata on Amazon for ... Infinite Reuse, and so now, we had everything we needed for Blood Moon Fest ... for the oven to get ready was a bit boring. I commented on her cool key

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... wreckage. It commands our attention, and for good reason. We have to survive ... time at MIT ticks closer and closer to an end (for real this time, for my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... over again among us. I am so grateful for this.  When I think about my ... architecture major plotting to become a writer), I went into journalism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025