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• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  irreverent take on them. The level of action was a bit overwhelming for me at ... occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my cousins, our parents would let us run amok at Disneyland ... Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... need for more than 1 or 2 dirty mugs at any one time, my friends and I ... In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of ... just asking for a leg up from someone else. - At our first Med

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  the screen. My CS internship already involved me staring at a screen for ... I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this ... away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  't looked at for weeks. I paced the lab under cold florescent lights, tired ... Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just ... I want to eat at that exact moment. And I love it. In preparation for ... those "get your child ready for college!" lists; when I read those lists

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  . Unless you are an international Olympian at being Kanye West (or uh, at Physics) you might be caught at some point, post acceptance giddiness ... you, far beyond where you currently stand. For the longest time I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... , presented the work at a recent American Astronomical Society meeting, where it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... recommend it i should also mention that there are other means for commuting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  completely at the chalkboard For this particular course, every class is a ... Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation ... -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at ... "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... especially at MIT, there's an urge to see a social problem and want to build an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... . Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting ... was just one calendar, for my friend's birthday. The year after, back

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... , and epic-scale lust for the power caught up in a little golden ring ... of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  terrifying journey also known as medical school admissions. Through my time at MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... gist. ;) During the day, I intern at Bellevue Hospital, a fifteen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to build toys without a shop, so the powers at be went out and bought a ... is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008