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• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  for iap. that’s independent activities period, which is exactly what it ... awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little ... tuesdays thursdays 11 to 3. there’s a waltz class on monday evenings at 7

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s ... Step Up II Also been sort of keeping up with America’s Got Talent

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  Adele, Owl City, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga good 80’s music - mostly Bon Jovi and random 80s hard rock songs bad 80’s music - Complete with every catchy, overplayed song from the 80s that you can think of ec

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called Application Advice, where I dispensed...application advice. It’s probably worth ... applications? It’s a pretty standard question, but it’s actually a very good one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  (architecture). “How do you perceive pika?” someone asked. “It’s a little ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it ... pika’s dining room"]CGE[/annotation] to strike up conversations with my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  It’s been three months since Ring Delivery, where sophomores receive ... dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  knew existed scrambled to put him back together again.” - Pride’s ... felt like it was about to collapse within itself. Here’s the thing, the ... mind. That’s not to say I didn’t worry about things, BUT the fact that I

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress ... cooked on EC’s very own grills, iconic for being there every single day of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  like but also where it’s located, and this knowledge is helpful because ... ." "While Newton’s friends were at the pub, he spent his free time uncovering ... is my roommate’s girlfriend)." "Whether we are learning to avoid the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  so tired. And then covid came around, and suddenly it’s March of senior ... – what if it’s only possible for me to be okay when I’m not actively ... familiar in high school. And then I started panicking, well, what if that’s

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  so very good. Now, though, it’s very convenient. I’ve never enjoyed ... : those brightly colored places with cheap burritos and names like Nico’s or Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  name it, I know this feeling. It’s the same strengthlessness from a ... fight to outrun a faceless threat. It’s been challenging to feel creative ... reading applications for the next—so it’s perhaps the only (and best?) time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  s u m i n g[/annotation] my days for the past couple weeks   Classes: 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) — honestly, not a fan. it’s a TEAL ... void :/ and i don’t know what’s going on half the time but i pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane’s ... find something she’d recognize.   But the “hola”s from home, the ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  values (like a step count). Through my iPhone’s Health app, I have ... Engineering,” one of MIT’s many Freshman Pre Orientation Programs (also known as FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week’s ... . Here’s a brief inventory of some of the notable mementos I’ve acquired so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  year-round. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Jamie Byron, co-founder at Grove Labs. B.S. in Aeronautics & Astrononautics at MIT. Sergey ...  Bevspot, an online platform to bring smart data to bartenders. M.S. in Computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s ... fellowship last July at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’m still studying brain ... ’re keeping track, my postdoc at Children’s means I’ve done lab work at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... hardcore AP Biology in 12th. It’s like – I know what meiosis and mitosis are ... – and well, I have lots of respect for their work. I hope MIT’s 7

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010