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• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  printout from Google Maps en route to the Eastern Promenade, as it is called ... outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed ... coming weeks :) When I got these puzzles, I said to myself that I didn

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  afternoons. Then the next two weeks will be for us to work on our website, with ... from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to ... of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my ... out of my league. and in some strange protective mechanism, i forced

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  number of people couldn’t hear or see anything, forcing some people to ... This weekend, I headed down to Washington, DC, for the Rally to ... , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  opportunity to receive guidance and support from great role models, and I wanted to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them ... mission to return the favor but knew that I could not do it alone. I wished

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note ... , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those ... semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... to tell you. If there's anything I learned from MITblogging, it's that Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... network, pleading with Google to tell you what your species is. You learn to ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  actually find yourself wanting to do the work, and it forces us nerds with ... " painted on its side, but I'm not actually going to tell you what it is yet ... four years trying to think of clever ways to fit "function" and "tensor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... bloggers" tab on the MITAdmissions website. I wanted this to be my official ... to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  forced in that moment to reaffirm that choice for myself.  Once I did that ... forced to before. When people literally spoke down to me, face contorted as ... . Every one of these experiences forced me to consider what it meant to be a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the conventional sense, my priorities were screwed up. However, to continue with the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010