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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... its purpose and they know what to do. A few rehearsals later, and it ... . Everyone’s doing what they’re supposed to. Suddenly, a whistle

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  but then ended up having a lot of fun doing! Also, MIT has a bouldering ... three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  little hotel called Hotel De Paris in Montreal. It was adorable. The ... every morning. We also found something quite spectacular. IT'S A CAT CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... night, including a panel (first video, discussing their "scariest moment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  for Q&A.  It was tons of fun.  I tried to do my best Macklemore ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O ... adjusting to do; it’s going to take a long time to re-imagine 19 years of

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... Ciudad de Mexico, where a friend of mine has family. We visited her family ... In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  española, y sé la manera más rápida de viajar a la oficina, y que quiere ... they do what you want them to either without you telling them, or with a ... the network with similar preferences. So I've been doing a lot of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some ... are going to do great things and you are going to have a wonderful ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have ... swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... conclusion: I have a lot to do over the next few months. I would not be ... I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two ... How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... trebuchets, a handmade wooden kayak, little robotic wooden men. He continued

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and ... graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  , obviously. What do you do to punt, de-stress, or reset, on or off the ... got that job, and that’s what I’ll be doing this summer, so I paid a lot ... Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  problems and having a blast doing it. I could go on for a while as to what ... , helped build a massive roof-deck, went kite-boating, went to Google (and ... -to-volunteer programs out there (as you will see if you run a Google search for gap year

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  me with a group doing a UROP and they accepted me.” That must ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  circuit diagram doesn't do much for me. It does have a little color going on ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  : do you know anything about that? Diana: definitely...it was a smash ... street location, they said we couldn't do that Diana: last year a couple ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006