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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  . I like to think I'm good at it for someone who doesn't know any ... slipped could be dangerous, because I couldn't grab the bar at the corner. I ... embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  ? Anyone looking for their college radio fix at midnight on a Sunday would be ... straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... like little girls for about a week beforehand. What if we screwed up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  of students at the schools you are interested in. As for Admissions ... watched last night, a cheerleading coach told her cheerleaders at a big ... nghi wrote, "can you write about the new management minor offered at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ’m raising money for the National Organization for Rare Disorders. I have ... (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ="I’ve heard people say this actually kinda works for algorithms, but thus far it has not proven successful for intro organic chem."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  everything takes place at night; only those with a special disregard for sweat ... I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... until it was over. Fact 2: my parents would have to quarantine for 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and ... always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... around 4:30pm on the Friday and stopped at Subway and Market Basket on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  close. Boxes will be packed, old psets that I will probably never look at ... world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity ... one, people will leave for internships, MISTI, vacations, or whatever

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of ... made sticky notes,” said Marie, who added that the premise for the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  The campus -- and, indeed, the world -- is abuzz with excitement for ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... was relatively banal but for some reason, it caught me off guard, as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  work for at all yet. I guess it's important to actually know how to ask ... enjoy my Thanksgiving vacation... I've been at MIT for quite some time now ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  the lab physically for several hours at a time. If I don't have a large ... , if I could learn the content at home, why should I come to MIT for it ... while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... my time at MIT was acting as sound engineer for Into the Woods in ... for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  for: The Makerlodge at MIT is really great because it can serve as an ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  unafraid. I want to get better at speaking up, asking for favors, and being ... Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for ... myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... , I fully expected to be crushed at every corner my soul tried to run ... and challenges, just a little shocked at how much it actually hurts.  I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... crippling laziness and go for a run in the woods behind my hotel, but until

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  (Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) courses at a rigorous technical school ... had prepared itself for hours of hunching over a computer, debugging code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  are then sent out to at least one of 57 Regionals across the world. Then, at Regionals, they'll compete against a field of dozens for the chance ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010