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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  assumed my “camp identity” of Smile (everyone makes up a name for themselves ... drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and ... lounge on Tuesday from 8-10 pm for the season finale of veronica mars. Not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  - it seems possible for her to double up on jobs and tell me which APs to ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... 'd have losing streaks for a while, give up hope, suddenly get a real, live ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  talking with a group of teachers while setting up for the college fair ... Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio ... stacks up. Maybe they’re waiting for a signal that it’s even worth trying

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i

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

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  side for the argument that you can always layer up more to warm up in the ... few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  . Along the walkway across the Small Dome was a thrift pop-up for used women ... going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT ... Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for ... others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... topic.  People have many ways of dealing with the stress.  For me, winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... -constructed roller coaster going up outside my new home. I wandered around in awe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... as early as 2 AM (!). And then I woke up and it was 7:13 AM on Tuesday ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  , Noah '09, and Chris '09 all showed up for breakfast and joined our table ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007