Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Airport Problems, Three Years Later we all have different coping mechanisms for coming back to school

  

  up seventy polaroids for all the friends who visited my loft. I lived ... "]Burton-Conner,[/annotation] and my brain has no intention to sleep, which is how we’ve ended up here. Unfortunately, this is not the first time I’ve ended up in a situation like this

  • by Janet G. '27
  • August 30, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... , smoothing the fabric and sucking up skin cells and water and oils from between ... , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  Depot to buy lumber for no fewer than 4 lofts, an picked up a futon all in ... things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator ... special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my ... someone on Sunday who tested positive for Covid a few days after. The ... into two freshmen, and we ended up chatting with them until like midnight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  all weekend and wake up late in the day, then stay up late Sunday night ... live with cool people, but when you zoom out a few notches, it's wake up ... predictable cycle -- wake up, eat breakfast, playground, go to school, have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... February 6, 2009, you know that something's up in the air. :) The night ... than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... out a DVD and starts up “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on DVD. I had ... November of last year when I visited Boston for the first time that I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  distancing's taken from me. I'm aching for waking up and dressing up and ... 've gone through the college application process, which meant shoring up all ... company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  what the magic is at every level. Besides setting one up for plenty of ... 've signed up for 3 more econ classes next sem! AHHH. This one hasn't been ... . The HASS class I had tried to sign up for was overbooked and, being an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . It doesn't mean you weren’t “good enough” for MIT. Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  mom, for the record, told me I looked punk). She ended up getting the ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  vehicles (UAV's). Some background I've grown up around aviation. There's a ... rattle was airplane-shaped, and for every birthday/Christmas/Groundhog Day ... -me, so he already had like four potential course 16 UROPs lined up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  PhD would also set me up for. I could work at a government agency, like ... unknowns, possibilities, and decisions for me to explore, and I'm glad that there are, but I'm glad at least to have a road to follow for the next

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  wanted to focus on urban dance for my first year in college. I ended up ... highlight of my week. I would not give it up for the world, and I hope to ... Ben O. '19 and I decided to team up to talk about all the dance teams

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  parking brake, and we pull back onto the highway, relieved.  To make up for ... zoom” for the rest of the day. Looking up sleepily at the sky, I ... race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a ... out and hold up their babies, hoping for more. Underneath the Pantheon ... sounded together. (TWO: Giving up on stepping around puddles, my socks

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... hey, why not, and filled out the online application. For the in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014