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• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... Books by working on MacBooks. I loved the (almost) annoying extent to which

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an ... 's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What ... i still am this though"]tell a lot about a person[/annotation] by what

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  really, really loved. Aside from PE, my cousins were raised by one of the ... content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth ... I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , but as of recent it feels more like a chore. Every week that passes by where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... -handed while announcing that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2029 will be ... laptop surrounded by loved ones, maybe you aren't going to be by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming. Its new number is 6.101, but I still call it by is old number."]6.009[/annotation] was. Underneath the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working this NASA ... ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  where it just rains. This week is one of them. It has been raining pretty ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and ... some reason, a school full of engineers has some serious problems with

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  Song: We Aren't Kids Anymore by Drew Gasparini Almost two years ago ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ! Camp.    ——   Two days of the camp later, it was back to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  . *They're separated by lots of wall, don't worry. It's 2pm. Goggles on ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your ... the vast majority of your peers passed the swim test as fresh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013