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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  wow and dazzle them on stage. This year was the first time that I had gone (they host one every year), so I didn’t really know what to expect, but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese ... birthday, so this arrived after the check: After lunch, I had Pistol PE ... gun safety. After Pistol, I booked it over to Harvard Square, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag, and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... that I had already had dinner five hours ago, debating with Katelyn '12

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling '07, Erica '07 ... . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling ... (which pay for themselves after two visits) this summer, I was able to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years ... -campus grocery store.[annotation note="The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could ... hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  " align="alignnone" width="1000"] bloggers!!! jebby, andi, ella, and i ... and i ganging up on sonny x. '25 (we weightlifted/kickboxed together on ... ="attachment_91430" align="alignnone" width="1000"] jade d. '25 & i 👊 (and two

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

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog a week as i'm currently working on a semester recap video blogpost that documents my time here at mit...but i'm really lazy and it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into ... ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... significant other asked me, "How do I meet more people?” Except, I think what he

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt ... I experienced when I got on campus. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget. This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  , snoonerisms speak into speveryone's eech. Please hend selp; I'm luck thike stis. Anyway, I've been living in Fran Sancisco this summer with (a sizable crew ... of rite of passage for computer science students, and I'd spent both

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  them.   Today, I'll also be watching, rather than running, the ... , and what each taught me about the other. One hard lesson I've learned ... better because I didn't take enough time to heal. And so I'm listening to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  Before iOS7, Apple’s weather app icon always showed that it was 73 ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical ... for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this ... ...booooooooooooooo!!!) so I was done by Wednesday of finals week. That evening, I went with ... were lifted into the air by invisible ropes or on invisible platforms (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014