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  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  for the first time in many months. My only regret about the trip is that ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... camp/platform for teaching Android programming in Bangalore, India and I ... , staying in a dormant MIT fraternity for a year, eating many many day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  acid in a 2 x 2 inch cartridge would be enough power a cell phone for ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I ... ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... , we like to talk about MIT Beef and the Lab for Chocolate Science. I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  putting together the event for us. Most of them came in from London, which ... cream and jam, and drinking tea, of course. For those of you who don't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I’ve never really written poetry beyond the flowery text in my zine comics, so

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  that I write first for myself in an attempt to make sense of things. They ... (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  Abyss, for example, is a show that will subsume you in a fantastical world ... weeks, even. For me, writing 50 pages of in-depth character analyses and ... ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of ... stressful, maybe because you're doubting everything you did in the first two years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  probably 6:30 or 6:31 pm. We logged in. Our letters wouldn't load for a ... when we, for the first time in all of high school, really allowed ... . Logged in. Waited for our screens to load. It was all too familiar

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major ... teacher who taught me for a year in Principles of Engineering, which was ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  Poetry Workshop class this semester, where each week you come in with a ... aside for fluffy / aesthetic stuff like poetry, even if STEM stuff is somewhat crowding the stage. In highschool actually, the professors I liked

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  for the occasion, since Boston has been in a bit of a warm spell, and my ... in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California ... for hundreds of miles. As someone who grew up in South Dakota, I am

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in ... precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I ... missing—skiing and then пельмени for dinner, forests and rivers and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be hugely important for your health and happiness, as well as your academic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  playing for EC had played badminton in high school, and mine had won the ... It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... interest in bioengineering and biomedicine to his passion for electronics ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008