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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I've run fifteen miles and walked about ten, so I'm just a little bit burned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... (both of which were submitted to MITMedical). Then I had to fill out the ... required for all incoming freshmen, so I hope everyone met the deadline

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but I’m also interested in math-related things that aren’t directly math ... ”, which I think is way more reasonable. In Tagalog, mathematics is sipnayan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... job to fix them. The problem with this framing, I think, is that it ... that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in ... Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and burgers for the entire weekend, so i did not feel great when i got home ... considering i've eaten like trash for every single other weekend getaway

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... "]window.[/annotation] I’m fine, more or less, and this isn’t complete burnout, yet, but I am

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  my preferred method of decoration. I've covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that

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

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip from distant lands to Cambridge, via Boston Logan Airport. I hold great

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  [caption id="attachment_55805" align="aligncenter" width="500"] i ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope for assignment submission and grading. I like gradescope more than other online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the ... recent events, though, these cool projects seem kind of...useless. I look

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... know that I got this blogger position through my really terrible quality, non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent ... …and basically the first time I’ve lived like a real adult. My official title at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015