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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Musical Theatre Guild was putting on "Urinetown", which I had never heard of, and wasn't particularly keen on hearing more about, given that title ... Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be ... used to - such as on the day before I started working at RIKEN, when I ... totally drove me crazy trying to figure out what to wear on my first day (I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... remaining MIT students on January 6. On the way, I stopped in Bijapur ... , as I met a number of people on the train and joined passengers in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  stay on campus? I know there may not be one answer, but an idea of the ... common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard ... when it just feels better to put on pajamas and rent a movie and order

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  the game and TV rooms. (More on those later.) The laundry room is ... -Conner's newly painted spacious TV room...there's a TV in there, I swear. On the ... with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better ... large even for me, so it's a bit difficult on city sidewalks. Still, she ... Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  completely blanks. Unless I'm actively working on an assignment for that course ... for burying a highway and putting a park on top of it (gross ... Wednesday morning. I read the shock on people's faces when I tell them about

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  lot more water than I was willing to actually have sitting on my desk ... bookshelves at all so I ended up putting it on my main dresser instead and it ... add water which required me to lay some plastic wrap on the sand to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  thermodynamics[/annotation] because it is one of three (3!) midterms I have on ... that night so I could work on blogging and research Wednesday ... got major-major-major stuck on the project and had to wait to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  a week on a black and white TV. He always rooted for the hero, and ... Match (climax of the album), in which Chavo took on Eddie, and the loser got their head of long hair shaved by the victor. Eddie passed away on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were ... roommates was also on campus for IAP, so we cooked a bit together. We made quesadillas with the stove turned on all the way — inadvisable, but much more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  sounded together. (TWO: Giving up on stepping around puddles, my socks ... . Later I’d go up close on a sunny day, note the trusses (more bronze than ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to ... best idea I’ve had at MIT"]I even went to all my classes on Tuesday ... on Wednesday, a second doctor finally diagnosed me with an infected

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity ... freshman fall.  And now? I am not on the team anymore, and I have no idea ... limited me because I have been rejected from research opportunities on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  Kyna suggested, copied low-cut jeans and folded-over jeans from people on floor. I encourage the free food culture on floor to thrive — we always ... in one friend’s room, or on another’s rug, or in the flounge with lots

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

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  were going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Brazil to learn about their ... get enough sleep (and food) on the two flights it took to get to Manaus ... I despise cupuaçu, but I’ll focus on the positives of the trip instead

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... different. Everyone here focused on genre-specific elements, like pacing and ... arts culture Harvard classes on the whole were harder than MIT HASS

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... two weeks, but on the same Thursday. 18.701 has weekly problem sets due midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of weight, and on a cart it did skate. It was late, three hours past eight ... predators and nets, intent on approaching a desination. They swam past a rock

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022