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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... cook. Instead, I've been mooching off of Raymond and Aiden for their ... with her mouth. I said I'd be more diligent and better at coding. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  military vessel stationed in Boston Harbor (although its runs at this point ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... decided to take Hubways back into downtown. For those of you who don’t know

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  D at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt ... imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  going here. Your biggest concern is that MIT, which doesn't stand for ... dedicated to the arts at MIT, but you know that spiels are spiels, not actual testimonies. What's worse, maybe the facilities provided for the arts are in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at ... traveler who arrived at the wrong airport after a trip four times longer than ... for your delayed connection." "Though you sprinted through the airport

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... camera monitors. Yeah, try that at home. (Actually, you can. They tell you ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  :30 AM, hang around at the top for seven hours or so, then watch the ... near our work for $20. (FORESHADOWING!) It wasn't too bad at first. But ... stood almost but not quite at the top, shivering and hating myself for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  President Susan Hockfield for the first time at a Christmas reception and ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me-- at least until East Campus, who was responsible for building the giant ... could cash out for real money at any time (though I don’t think anyone

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  friend from Chicago got mad at me for being such a tourist ... believe my love for the sky at the edges of day is rooted in some ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  shortened and for a moment he stood at the edge and the world shrunk until ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... high-school I resolved to play infinite games. To find and fight for the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  ’ve only been at MIT for two years and haven’t witnessed his true power ... before the big concert; naturally, the entire afternoon was blocked out for a dress rehearsal. Still, we had one more excursion at the Cultural

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually listening to them ... my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high ... . having rediscovered my love for reading, I decided to embark on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to ... mentor at Metropolis, an especially accessible makerspace at MIT, was happy

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  bins for grains, but the prices are cheaper at the Harvest Co-op. Star ... . General Advice for Grocery Shopping Bring an empty backpack. You should ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... -quality produce. I left early and arrived at the grocery store just as an employee

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009