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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  . It features a spinning disk that's SO fun to whirl around on. Honestly ... for a while. Keep your eyes on the swings, though—they're snatched up ... dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  : We're counting on you! You are the next generation of global leaders ... "]virtue-signalling-white-girl think pieces[/annotation] on this topic; there are plenty of those to go ... were shared in yesterday's post on George Floyd and Minneapolis, if you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  things. If you turn on captions for the video, and choose English (United ... listed on Engage. 02:40 Kresge's roof used to just be supported on the ... . Maybe more. 03:27 There isn’t another big theater group on campus, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... opera for FREE? With that said, if we are watching actors on stage telling

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  at a stretch at home, laid on the couch all day, caught up on the ... for a technical interview... more on that later :3) Walked around lots ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... people on this planet, learned a lot about the HIV epidemic and went on my ... Kresge Oval 7) Built a whole microfluidic gut-on-a-chip device (and it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’ve been here both for only a week and for years. On the last day of classes ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... high school clubs for the sake of involvement. I’ve learned to focus on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit here in the airport on Tuesday morning, it's actually dead week that ... working on is embracing spontaneity a little more, which has... uh... never

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... at the evidence, it seemed like I’d hit the self-destruct button on my ... a moment. It was a Saturday, and my friends were going on an adventure

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the ... parents cheered us on and wished us good luck the morning of? So much seemed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also ... he wanted us to take away. On that day, there were many other slides ... his mentoring had on me, particularly that year. Since it’s been five

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents ... classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked ... graduating this year I am still on the email list for the year I entered MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger ... . When freshmen take on more leadership roles, older students don't get as ... in my email?", and "Do we always spend $1,000 on this?" MIT has a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  week), but then again that estimate is based on an average of student ... spend more time than the average MIT student working on things, so it ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  been heavy on my mind, as has been the realization that in doing so, MIT ... . It really does happen. Sometimes, you have a stressful p-set on our ... switch seats or put on headphones. The other party (also being somehow on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... "Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems." This class is hard on me not because the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand ... eating popcorn 3) We went on another errand run. The sky was really pretty

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as ... volunteer/service opportunities. on thursday night, i also went to the class

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  for their last exams, and suddenly my room was packed and i was on a ... -night conversations, and reflect on the things they've learned. and my hall, fifth west ... them, putting them in picture frames or pinning them on the wall. working

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... Institute focused on recruiting international students, especially from China ... posts that came out of my UROP research on the history of early

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017