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• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the ... backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of ... expository writing are a bit fried. But please, I promise there’s a guide to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a student at MIT.) A couple weeks before the end of term, we abandoned an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about.  Why?  Because I've let life slow down a bit since graduating.  On campus ... a while.  I'm the Lego guy. Sometimes I just grab people in the air

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... starts getting cold you will probably see a noticeable change in my ... a drowning snowman in the moat?” And we laugh, agree that it would

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I haven't blogged since JULY. I know, I'm a ... blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... a system where majors have names, like "history," "psychology

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... a melody played by the elementary schoolers on [annotation note="a ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... , I find it really impressive when people can advance a narrative while ... a story and I think it is really cool [annotation note="in today

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro acting i did a scripted paired scene, and then i did a monologue. it came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... was probably something like a 50% (I’m looking at you 6.046). There’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge current MIT students at the annual Trashion Show. The MIT Trashion Show is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... freshman year. With a large majority of freshman taking it and it being notoriously difficult(relative to other freshman classes), 8.01 has a bonding

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... first two years of med school was HARD as a MIT grad. But you ask: doesn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  week and then get off early on Friday. That changed a bit this week ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun. A year ago I read Matt McGann's entry about some super-special secret

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  So it's been almost exactly a week since I last put together a blog ... applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... with a big group with lots of people I was close friends with. This visit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of something like relief. It was certainly a tumultuous year on a global scale ... . On a more personal note, it definitely wasn’t my best year, but here at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017