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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  , a camel? Come on. Where did THAT come from? Why isn't it at least a ... !" At that point, the continued pursuit of this word is sort of pointless ... I am in the US. It was a little annoying at first (someone actually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  previous factors still weigh in?" We always look at a given applicant ... won't be in place until 2006 at the earliest. "Also I know you stated ... ?" Not at all. We got a gazillion pieces of mail right on the deadline. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... and went to enroll at the local primary school, where I was deemed a bit ... body stared at, whispered about, as I walked across the playground. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... HASS classes that require graded spoken assignments and at least 5

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  that are white. Other say it's because their tops are covered in ice. At ... large shoes made for walking in soft ice next time. At the same time ... makes you cold. I have never seen anything quite like what I saw at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  difference. The professor starts each class with deep breathing (4 BPM). At ... crosswords. I started doing research at MIT's SuperUROP program in modeling ... the first-ever friend I made at MIT, which I think we both needed. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... felt. I really couldn't understand why I was at MIT. The hardest fact to ... as it is to try my best at whatever I'm doing, I'm just trying my best

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... to be bad at context switching and clearing their minds take my ... everything else. at the same time, i was friends with a lot of these people, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  doing that. I also wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the next ... before starting at Stanford next year. We both always have a ton of ... exist for years to come, so that my life at this institute will always be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  will choose to move to this city and work at this company and dive into ... happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest ... friend told me they were stuck on deciding whether to work at a startup or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... video and stared at the screen in disbelief. [caption id ... will be different at college (or in any new environment). Sometimes only

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  still at MIT, so the night before “yesterday,” I took a train back to MIT ... it felt great to take life at a slower pace.  [caption id ... at spinning poi. Dearest reader, I recommend that you search up “MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  , it was held at an office. for a startup, of course, cofounded by one of ... woodworking skills? i'm good at building lego worms, does that count? what about ... the beats were similar: music, drinks, food, talking. it was at a huge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  ’s really cool stuff, and you should check it out!” A book club hosted at a ... ="960"] Developed at the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab[/caption]   ... ) At some point, we were playing around with this installation where you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  experience this past Thursday where I got yelled at so badly I had a panic ... starting at Issue #30 of TASM. So far, I've really liked it. I can tell that ... , but at the same time, my body feels prepared to handle all of this shit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  Square, went salsa dancing at the Havana Club, and generally had an ... -choosing, etc. I didn't have time to finish my poster at that session but it lived ... morning blue, and I felt like something inside of me was resonating at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  runs [annotation note="at least this was how the club was run this past ... [Masha] I first encountered Infinite at CP*, the spring before my freshman ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  to never missing out on schoolwork despite not feeling up for it at ... interactions with covid felt rather unsafe living at home, but it inevitably took ... slate at times. The weight of work, psets, expectations (both internal and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... commitment dining plan at Baker House. Outside of the residence halls, many ... from surviving on Soylent to masterchef-level cooking to eating at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  from when we presented our UROP work at Fluid Interfaces during the Media ... information sheet about the Agassiz Theater at Harvard that we got when we went ... ! 27) Receipts from when we got our flu shots at the MIT flu clinic 28

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020