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• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  dramatic because it’s nowhere close to true, but I am scared of graduation ... ’t have the skills. “What do you mean I need to rest? This can’t possibly be ... incredible and useful to the world, or if I decide against engineering entirely

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  into my suitcase; hopefully Eric can fit it into his backpack. At 6 or ... bags and took a very sketchy cab ride* to the airport. I made a quick ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  just before midnight July 15, who will wait to borrow it from a friend or ... Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen before. We had planned to cap Saturday with dinner at Fire & Ice, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... very different person without it. Now, let me be straight, loving to ... floor, and decided to join since it seemed like a low commitment yet fun

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  into a room I can keep indefinitely if I choose to, and worked to make it ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it ... means to grow and change; I struggle to describe it clearly. All I can do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... and reality. You have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. This ... ends, it vanishes. We like to party during this time. 12am-3am: Steak

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  with everything else, that seems to be the case lately. It’s almost the end of the week, and I can tell you everything I was up to these last ... meals. I studied for an upcoming Google interview. I don’t think it’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  mixer to the amp to the speakers, and it worked! it was cool to actually ... they can hear themselves). i thought it was cool that our final setup combined equipment from three different systems, and it fun to talk through

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... highway. It occurred to me that I ran 8 miles earlier this week and my legs ... cramped up (right as we stopped to take pictures of the waterfall above). It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

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

  

  know how when you can't think of the exact word you want to use to ... "stay." "Voy a quedar aquí" = "I'm going to stay here." But, it can also ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  . They taught us how to make slight modifications using C# scripts. It ... used C++. Since I had just spent a month learning C++, it was easy to ... Freewebs to built my first website using their drag-and-drop website builder

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to ... can keep it. When I was not occupying the fort, Fuzzy W. '14 ... it! It was a little strange at first, but we quickly went into

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  , so the costs are different. If I were to ask someone out now, maybe it ... the chance to do so. That's silly hubris, right? It doesn't matter that ... 't learn to handle a tendency of mine if I'm trying to deny it even exists

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  , which used to feel 100 steps away (when in fact it was almost 1 ... I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn ... you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  't know the answer, but perhaps I can persuade Ben to answer it in the ... . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  shot. Our idea was to power the car using a galvanic cell. To control how ... too hosed to see it to completion. We made good progress during IAP, but ... exposure to a wet lab (a lab that makes use of chemical solvents. Examples of

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... printers at MIT), actually used to work. But it's been broken for awhile, and ... When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between ... . And if that gets boring, you can even use all four limbs at once ... knows how to resurrect dinosaurs. C'mon, it would be cool. Portal

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once ... a Swim Test but that's about it. Well, what if you can't swim to save ... housing lottery, it's a good idea to pack a suitcase with about a week

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006