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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  Given that it’s the day before Campus Preview Weekend and I have two papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess ... was turn chartreuse. ARTHUR: He”s not proud of it, okay? (sighs) We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  , working in Professor David Wallace’s lab. Alongside a grad student named ... Portugal. Here’s a quick look at some highlights from the project—and what a ... .  This summer, I’m staying at ET, an off-campus fraternity. What’s really

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  - I felt like a balloon with it’s strings cut. Adrift. Empty. Useless ... quest with friends in Baldur’s Gate 3 fill my heart gauge with energy. I ... . She’s almost 30 and lying in bed with a heating pack on her back after

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , museums. Finally I visited the Duomo, Milan’s central cathedral, which was ... than an hour’s drive from Milan. The rental company gave us the boat with ... had been trying with little success to get it to sit on command. “It’s

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad’s ... it to the wall. Aw rats. It’s almost like someone intentionally put ... the anchor!! So now it’s [annotation note="for the record, I'm not

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since ... , walked on stage to kick us off with the Hacker’s Map, the decibel levels in ... practically knew everyone’s lines by heart and I could still barely figure out

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  zodiac signs lining the circular room. “What’s your sign?” I asked her. “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : 2021 Yeah, uh. There’s not exactly much going on here. Some things on my ... our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to ... programs! I’m super excited to have him as a thesis advisor because he’s done

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... Katharine Briggs, based on personality theories by Carl Jung. Science in Jung’s time (the 1920’s) was not very rigorous or methodical, so Jung literally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  Catherine’s employment of the word “roflstomp” to describe the act of severely ... particularly harrowing game of Sid Meier’s Civilization IV with two friends and – here’s the really good part – my professor of medieval literature. How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... ’t always be around to give advice and mentorship about navigating MIT’s many

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  hedge fund, let’s call them D. i had an offer for a quant research (QR ... finance is particularly good for the world (i don’t think it’s bad either; i think it’s very neutral) and i also don’t think QR work is that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  take over a minute, so I used my phone’s timer to keep myself in check ... , it was more like Stud 3 because it was on the upper floor of Stud 2’s ... of MIT on gather.io, MIT sent all 2024s a little car package. The

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  working on. This Friday, it’s my turn to present the progress I’ve made in ... ??"]month[/annotation] since I’ve arrived at the institute. It’s entirely on me for ... them late the previous night, so there’s that"]the morning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  -based design course open to all students, 2.S991 Designing the First Year at MIT ... engineering education. They were most inspired by words from Sugata Mitra’s TED ... invention of the printing press. Here’s an example of why that’s true at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  Louvre; through its great windows sculptures danced in candlelight. “Let’s ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the ... Saint Genevieve’s death, her eyes clouded over with blindness, thin arms

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if ... homework packet. My second Bad Idea was S’mores with [annotation note ... a few days before Bad Ideas Weekend, I was suddenly notified that s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang-dong’s ... the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025