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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for ... 've been trying for years!' 'Well, you didn't have an MIT freshman in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... 's foremost expert on formic acid fuel cells, to ask for the highest power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... 's. Grad school Well, for one, see above. For another, I never wanted to be ... that I liked my biology classes a lot, and made a class plan for a double

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  tickets for Bruce Campbell, and then nobody told me about super-hot Phil ... (tm Kevin Miu '06), but that's another story for another day. There are ... , especially when it could be used to buy free food for the floor, so I was kind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... amateur musical theater shows or write Linux tools for fun or whatever it is ... to cruft tell stories for hours, but sometimes I'm the one telling them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but ... show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... about college was the need for a refined major. In many instances, inside ... current interests are and that there is little room for change. By not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am ... reading books I don’t like has been somewhat of a challenge for me, because ... ."]them.[/annotation] So, because this is fun for me and may end you with a book rec or two

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... tackle specific issues. In order to do this, we created empathy maps for ...  social issues unheard   We then drafted up our problem statement that would guide us for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  never actually tried suicide, but has willed for unconsciousness for a ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and for twenty years after he was never the same. He dreams of attaining the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP ... in the world. Plus, more and more summers are being reserved for ... year, I ended up applying for the IAP Madrid program offered by the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... little things we never even would have thought to look out for. I took ... growth and soil acidity limits nutrient availability, so for trees

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  handwritten note: You saved $500 today. You're welcome for not being towed for ... with except for the fact that you're squinting because you were staring ... City and be impressed by their credit card tap systems, and wish for that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates ... ”. That’s another thing! For the sailors, this wasn’t “sea music,” it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... , or both; someone who's capable of speaking up for their team to ... . This past month, I've been serving as the band director for a student

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it ... nightfall. When I was twelve, I had an infection that swelled for two days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... : wow, i actually like this framework a lot p: for what it’s worth, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  on the third floor of Walker Memorial and cry internally for 50 minutes ... for the midterm, I realized that there’s really no way around it. The ... starts Wednesday, calm for about 5 hours on Thursday, panic the entire

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022