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  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  ' eclipse chasing tales dumped into a compilation blog:  Kano Allison ... flooded me: awe, joy, confusion, denial, and horror. The world shifted for a ... , we have a peaceful dawn and an idyllic sundown, yet they seem to mostly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... ,” [annotation note="see also: “so false.” can be used as a filler/form of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... from Japonaise Bakery; it was a squat, proud building with a large yard and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  white letters on a green backdrop, three Greek letters. *** A few weeks ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought ... . First: I remember being a speck among many one afternoon, staring across a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... the subject line (it helps Google sort my mail). Read through, enjoy, and soak up all the trivial goodness that is: Q&A Are MIT students

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT ... ’t do anything along those lines last year—I didn’t send out a single cold

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a new laptop! It's a beautiful lightly-used ThinkPad T470 that I got off ... spring, which was when my old laptop, a ThinkPad E560, started becoming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Nearly three years ago, I published a post provocatively titled ... . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just ... the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  gonna lie - i've become a little lazy with my spotify game. i think it ... eating a ton of office snacks all the time. however, god did not put me on this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything else) amazingly well, which probably isn’t surprising. A sizable number

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan ... starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of ... Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding ... “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010