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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  ’m horrible at it. If you’re in some need for some inspiration, watch MIT ... vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... all my notes and scribbles for my difficult coding classes. In reality ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I was in college, I took a job working for Apple as a Campus ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was wading around in the rising water, making sure that everything essential

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... for the V for Vendetta comic and didn't see it in their small graphic ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  for drills and drones in place of auto-rifles and grenades. Next to the ...   You’ve probably heard this a million times in various ... MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  in these cities and to struggle with issues like gentrification. Since ... for a total of 15 miles in Chicago, then 25 miles in Boston, then 50 ... ’d felt asking friends for help on psets. And here this person was in front

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  minute early. We waited a bit for the exams to come in. We were first ... round, we waited for the individual rounds to come in. Algebra and Number ... , but paused for a bit when Daniel introduced me as a "senior". "As in, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  helped many people resolve their issues - for instance, i have sometimes ... every day for months in a row. doing more activities with other people ... in lockdown so i never saw any dentists. my gums became weaker and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the ... ’t exist. By the time I was moving in my friends for the fall semester, the ... even in front of other people? You’re not weak for crying. Tier 2: Oh

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means ... dorms, and post on social media most of the work for publicity is in ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  with travellers in hostels. The hosts I worked for were great people (and ... you in their homes (for free!) for a night or so, and feed you and ... responsible for children. Hostel work Basically, many hostels in Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which ... features in the Minecraft server would be a lot of fun for curious students ... the walls are difficult to mimic in Minecraft; people had to account for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a ... them: I did jiu jitsu for a minute back in high school. My studio ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  for the Garbage concert, my primary motivation to fly to Georgia in the ... Good evening. This is Ruth Miller, field reporter for Sam's blog, coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in ... In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but ... sucked. I couldn't exercise by running, so I started lifting weights in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  . In everything from physics to philosophical issues in brain science ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... here in the first place. But what about those other qualities that aren

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  workplace child care program that has been in place for over 30 years. Younger ... In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like ... customs fees. in eighth grade, for filipino class, we discussed the song

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on ... -zero temperatures). I stuffed a few more calories down my throat, packed my bag for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  experience. For me, I quickly realized I chose the right community in Theta Chi ... [/caption] With all of the things I have done at MIT, I’m most known for my role in ... "]Z[/annotation]lifting or hooping for my intramural team. You can also find me chillin’ in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024