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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... and all the extracurriculars I'd signed up for, however, and my newfound ... heights. I asked Fred, as a fellow blogger, to write up his strategies for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  cabin (Camelot) up in NH for the night, so that we could get an early ... for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  catch up on while on the road when I'm away for week-long training camps ... had to give up the sport, that would be just all right, that I would ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  providers for a wide range of well-priced choices. Now, since I trained up as ... missed while getting treated for those infections. (One I made up after the ... A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  up some experiments, let the ones that need to run for awhile incubate ... . 6pm - about 10pm Finish up things for the day at lab. On good days ... next day. Sometimes stay up to grade p-sets for intro bio and intro

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  together as we discussed the bonus question I had won for us. Toss up ... , physics. Four points for every toss up, ten for every bonus. The sound of ... ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  clue card comes up for "King Kong" but my friend, Elyse, she's got the ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... not going to be driving distance from home. I remember packing up my

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  up for the big size, now there's a "little big book" weighing in at ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... showcase some MIT-related products that are for sale. All of these are real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I ... replacement for the period, who knows :p in actuality, however, one of my default typing styles for as long as i can remember has been more like 'slim

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... . Locals may end up using the term even if the storm does not exhibit a ... canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  up a computer in the cloud using Amazon Web Services. For my daily life ... paid around $450 for it, which is like way less than what I would have paid for a new computer with comparable specs. Also it ran Windows 7

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... twice, but Livescribe reared it's head again in my life, so up comes another blog entry. I saw an ad on Facebook for the "Livescribe Campus Rep

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  nothing at all, which wound up being quite a bit...but that's a story for ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... "]headaches,[/annotation] but overall, I enjoy the satisfaction of cooking for myself when I have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  ended up going here, things after that would simply fall in place. My ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  for three hours. Aimlessly skateboarding down my hall. Rolling ... the end of it. I’d spent the last two weeks either rehearsing for six ... back! I could heal, start some personal projects, catch up on my (late

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  get their make-up retouched for game two.  Jeopardy! usually tapes five ... challenge for artificial intelligence. What is "Jeopardy"? That is correct ... about Jean from an email she sent me, explicitly for blogging purposes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... % off coupon in the Collegiate Coupon Book, which you can pick up for free ... Boston sky lights up for 23 minutes to a bizarre soundtrack which included

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005