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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... over a mile from Next, so it took us a good half-hour or so to even get ... abolitionist and suffragist and the first Massachusetts woman to get a college

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  : And Time Magazine To: [email protected] Professor Diaz is away but if you're ... Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... learned how to write about myself, how to create the froyo flavor that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... two problems. it took us 5 hours to complete three. as i type this up, i ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a ... with regulations. they get too attached to their murals, which makes ... floors get Inter-Floor Activity Fund (IFAF) money to host socials between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  get home when it's dark and late with barely enough time to put ... cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... over my shoulder to see what I was reading.  "And weren't we going to

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in ... to visit the campus. Alumni Leadership Conference, Campus Preview Weekend, and Tech Reunions all represented great excuses to come to Boston

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... Eastern Europeans to the MIT Global Startup Workshop conference, I hopped

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if slightly awkward) compliment at Meet The Bloggers, to "Joooliyah" for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... middle of May. As an aside, it may or may not be of interest to note that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017