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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  point to get back before dark, since some of our professors were concerned ... -Au-Prince when we get back to Boston. Tomorrow we'll leave, but the street vendors ... night to see by the light of one little light bulb. Maybe it only takes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... 's study break should be Canada. Come to Foo at 22:47 and donate your ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  sessions: getting to observe and be inspired by other people's processes ... much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal ... ! “Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the ... own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  . Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main ... kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... it, you’re likely to reach a crescendo of anxiety. After that moment ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them ... of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but ... The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  emails regarding the same Thing, the same event, the same new information ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  northward to see me, so I couldn't let her down by skipping out. No, no, not ... like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... having any reason to own milk.    Whether by chance or on purpose ... This is a guest post by Sara M. '24, our lovely dorm VP, who did a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... Nicole R. asked: "What have been some of your favorite classes at MIT ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded

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

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  ’m trying to get a sense of what it would feel like to pursue different ... I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  high school Spanish day by day, and all I had really known to begin with ... , Rome, Paris, London, and God help me I want to get to Montreux ... MIT. I'll tell you all about MIT student life when I get back to Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was ... black holes, established the new MIT-Madrid study abroad program, learned ... libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025