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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  my bet that I get to California before the Speaker gets elected is ... merely getting to bed. Good night! ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  i already feel like an alum visiting mit, when i come to meetings, when i eat dinners with people, when i go to square dancing every week ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... consequently broke up and we all moved to different dorms and eventually stopped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... 's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  This message goes out especially to the juniors... seniors, spread the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer ... are great ways to spend your summers. I just hope you'll take advantage

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in ... responsible for getting ready for senior day this weekend, so we decided to ... — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  world in different ways, and then your mind learns to subconsciously ... difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... been at the finish line and he was unable to locate them. He had seen his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  . **The answers may be online somewhere, but I'll ask to see your work ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of ... my camera having trouble focusing (not to mention coming close to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... didn't know then how to train myself to get stronger -- honestly, I feel ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we

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

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  to Pecker.       This is what I come home to in the evening. I get to ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  thankfully, I never saw another mousenado. However, I did get to relive some of ... to get COVID tested, and then to Dunkin for breakfast. Those days were ... my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... mechanics, is two hours long; reading those posts gets me through the rapid ... the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you ... story is that life is so much richer when you're able to have fun ... that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus, to be divided unequally amongst 400 or so residents. 2.The Choir Party

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022