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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  large group of hall neighbors, and it was refreshing to be in a friendly ... (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  love you so much! D. One of the neat-o things about Simmons Hall (the ... , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous years for the classes of interest (thanks Cameron!) because if I’m going

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... 'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of pennies in the month of December. Piles of them. Every single year. But as cliché as that line becomes in the last few weeks of the last month, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... because of my awesome addition skills. (Kindergarden, remember?) As I got ... , and spends most of his time framing houses. He used to come home from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for lunch and dinner. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while ... of free time on campus. For some background, we are 100% self

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  want to keep any of you waiting longer than others (also the reason why ... find answers to an overwhelming majority of your questions, including ... components (including a variety of different posts on writing essays and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016