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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be ... blue: I’ll be on the Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago, then ... opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the ... ’t do the work (any of my team members will tell you I could). I just didn ... opportunity cost. Everything you decide to do will keep you from doing something

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  to write an essay on the most significant challenge on that essay being ... ethnicities of my classmates and feeling a loneliness in being the only Filipino ... --pillowcases, stuffed animals, trees--to combat the solitude of being an only child.  I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the ... disadvantage applying EA -- you're not, after all, being compared to all the ... advantage of the smaller UAVs is that they can be flight-tested indoors -- it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  the campus, and am honored that I will soon become part of it. ... the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  MIT, as you might guess, and it's the coolest thing in the world be ... about being hit in the face by a leaf would cause such a stir, but the ... believe this means I should be taking ninja classes or something of the sort

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  prize. On day 2 of being on campus, we got evacuated from our rooms in the ... other than thinking it would be cool. The bear shipped in a really tiny package (it was vacuumed sealed), but it ended up being the expected size

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ’s the lesson I need to be learning. It hasn’t worked for me yet.    ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  lunch at work. It will always be worth the $10–20 — I think of it as a ... be one of the three traditional fields in robotics, which are ... traditional disciplines are the ones that I will focus on in this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting ... may be entitled to financial compensation in the form of “me buying a ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake. Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press gently on the trigger until you meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the live webcast of Wolfram Alpha going live. Be here tonight at 8 PM ... software called "Mathematica" that is pretty much my savior. It's the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  ="man, one thing i will not miss once i graduate is the onslaught of senior ... 'll be a senior next year, my Burton Conner single will be much smaller ... positive. oops!!! turns out i was one of the last of my friends to be taken

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  student’s vision a reality in the hopes that his success will motivate ... myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  aromas to the meat that will be released right as you bite into it. If you ... uncannily rich in food metaphors, with perhaps the most famous example being ... can still be an act of love. Figure 6. Serving food at the Night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan*fully punny title and all! Here's Iris: WARNING: There will be shameless ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  just the video-making process with the hopes that the course will be ... than a student. The feeling that I'm graduating – that this may be my ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  the rest of the day. Because suddenly, things seems to be moving faster ... dooring in the cold is an experience that can't be written down. It required ... may be writing huge chunks of the biography for us. But you ultimately

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  ’t check the width of the tulle I bought and it ended up being a lot smaller ... consequences is why this was not the last time I did this lol. Be better than me ... royalty enough to be envious but the show has definitely wiped out any

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  [/annotation]“will I still be able to do MISTI Italy?” I was told yes, and ... , asking if anyone might be interested. Surprisingly, the story got a lot of ... expressed interest in joining the biking. Selena would be spending IAP with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023