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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT ... goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  meals, I tried out a new chicken marinade (it's the first one on Google ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  thought that writing an interactive Buzzfeed-style quiz would be a fun way ... ?? what) A couple days later, I started the data analysis (instead of ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Vehicle Team (and a video featuring the vehicle can be found on the Google ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... majors, in a lengthy exchange of experiences and ideas. Discovering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... , with a long flowing white beard), (2) mechanical engineering has replaced ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  just a few of the press articles at http://news.google.com ... , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... in a sustainable fashion anytime soon. So, until we get a big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... a vegetarian for a month for no particular reason? Here's a picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not ... about a white elephant right now. Maybe, like me, your brain would do

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  air; you are at least 90% sure that nothing would happen. A google ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... and ready to start (and finish) the 7.012 PSET. Instead, I woke up a few

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020