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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my ... to school 3,000 miles away means I'm racking up more frequent flyer

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

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... 's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math teacher's name was Lynn, so I guess I've just been indoctrinated to call it ... , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  panned out. Oops. However, I am finally going to write this entry, which I intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  Today I flew back to campus! I returned earlier that most students because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... letters. They also didn’t look or feel like other silk fabrics I was used to ... it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... scene. Autostitching can be used to make panorama shots and even "mini

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... single soul. Not one person. It is never like that in the fall. To make

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , my dance team's annual performance. I'd go to class from 10 am to 1 pm, go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that craves to synthesize literature. Creating the paper and presentation was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... tallest bars and wonder, what could possibly have taken her 30,000 steps to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  .100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017