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• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  pacific science center laserdome. a few weeks ago it was fourth of july and ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... outrun anything. I would be untouchable. I had a lot of friends raise

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the ... my UROP, I'm currently in charge of researching effects of previous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  stay open Running the Mass Ave-Museum of Science bridge loop Junot ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I ... “ohmygodimgonnagetatummyachetomorrowwhydididothat” kind of thing. [caption id="attachment_103395" align ... particularly tasty bowl of pho.)[/caption] “I’d probably be a nine,” I replied

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  students to push the boundaries of science and technology. As such, I was ... highlight who the professors are outside of MIT. And the videos are truly ... of preparing this post, contributing their time and voices and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... feet pegboard, stretching away to the right of the Welcome Center entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  was likely from remembering the one we had in my 7th grade science ... a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what MIT policies would allow[/annotation] ). So of course, I realized I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025