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• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... campus!), or hanging out with family (if you're at home). I did this unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... with my friends was more challenging than I expected after getting sent

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... , casting, overriding, interfaces, exceptions, I/O, and testing with JUnit

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city. a fragment: narratives as mnemonic devices a story: i spent last ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... street cred. Sometimes I flip through my contact list and wonder, “what

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  This year I have been helping my little cousin Danielle* with her ... . I thought that the conversation might be relevant to you too, so here ... . I know that everyone has ringtones with Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Lil

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon. The other day Mike, who I may or may not know, asked... "What are you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  , even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The ... "M" in MIT 30 Timpanis — Made up the "I" in MIT 30 Synthesizers ... field I'm very proud of my drill, and I think it should be performed at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from ... tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I've been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  have to immerse yourself into this persona if this isn’t you, so I’ve tried my best, through one of my favorite mediums, short stories: I go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those yellow Johnson's baby shampoo bottles. I spent hours decorating that label

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food ... butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... become much more [annotation note="when i say urgent, i don’t mean urgent ... these issues are needed, and needed sooner than ever. but the way i think

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May, very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... blog is the album Blue Moon Safari by Air and Vegyn :-) Last fall, I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Jack Barry Field.  I got the chance to catch up with Sydney P. ‘25 and ... and I’m a senior studying Chemical-Biological Engineering (10B) and Finance (15-3). I’m originally from outside of Philadelphia, PA. Outside of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to ... Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and ... ,’ so I know what major people are and what classes they’re taking. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a ... highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021