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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a research assistant job). I didn't say anything more, both because it wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good ... day and then nap again if I still feel tired afterwards” then trying to ... them personally. But yeah, I dunno. I’m not one hundred percent

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  'sup yall? Sorry I haven't blogged lately. The truth? I've been enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day, I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  teacher's name was Lynn, so I guess I've just been indoctrinated to call it "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice, although I guess I've called it that sometimes too, for absolute clarity. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... . Although the “I’m Just Ken” memes and bright pink were shoved down everyone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  blue. I recently got my hair re-dyed. My mother usually insists that I get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and dye my own hair I’ll ruin it (which, mind you, I have never done

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW nametag — Teresa, Missouri, uhhhh I applied as an [annotation note="at least

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  This past weekend, I had two high school friends, Kenneth and Ethan, come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... able to constantly stride around the city like I knew it so well. Hopping

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... masterpost about dance at MIT... I started learning choreographed dances when I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  guest post series* Home Sweet Home I was not imagining coming home for the summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling ... my resume to half the booths I walked past because I may have gone a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  I usually don't write "DECISIONS ARE DRAWING NEAR!" posts, because although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• 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 again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... , Mitra! I went on the flying trapeze last year but this year I was just too busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006