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• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... , and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... someone on Sunday who tested positive for Covid a few days after. The ... the day. I found out about the close contact I met on Sunday. I told my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be ... classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra lab section on Thursday than I should have. My psets all came out at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  , balanced meals daily, exercise, finish my assignments on time, study for tests and score decently in them, make my bed, do laundry, check up on my ... past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... the other person. If you must, only argue on matters that go against ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  putting sleep and meals on the back burner (pun intended). My classes and ... to Market Basket. This involves going on the Red Line to the Davis then ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  and great. The week started off on August 18th when us counselors met up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman arrived on the 21st, so that gave us around three days to do all the prep

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials ... have me on board with no coding ability or past experience!. The

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... ! Welcome aboard! On behalf of our pilot and flight crew, I’d like to thank

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the other. Tucked into little apartments and host families ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and ... the 2017 US Figure Skating Jump On It! Camp. It was 93 degrees when I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... Sabrina were working on when I got there.   Then, they told me they ... 've helped make that will live on after me, this may be my favorite, and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  complete them, receiving a lot more ownership and credit on our project ... ) to really be working on path-critical items for our project, and to know that I have enough experience and skills to really be of use. On

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  them. I think it’s interesting to look back on all those little ... , during my trip to work on the Muti Water Project (see the blog post "A ... ...but hopefully it can be immortalized here on the internet. March Seen on a trip

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... top universities in the world. The conference took place on Saturday ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were ... Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... a few minutes to spare (on MIT time). T-6 mins before exam begins. 11

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical ... sheet deep enough for you to support yourself on, and kicking spikes on your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the guest was Sherry Turkle who directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011