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• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  someone was holding it up, and getting my bag flagged for manual inspection ... amid the virtual-ness of it all. For now, I’ve gotten a messed-up sleep ... , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  as soon as they go, making way for the lows, and then right back up ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... face burning up despite the slightly chilly weather, you feel on top of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... that make up a perfect breakfast"]leisurely eat breakfast in the office

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  hardest part is just picking up the phone for the first time, and I ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... Representative Katherine Clark. Now, I'm normally very happy to pick up the phone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks ... wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  , but I ended up qualifying for my 3rd consecutive senior nationals and 6 ... energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  interface for the pingball game) to set up Wednesday’s check-off meetings ... my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... ,” I say. 9:15 am: I wake up, 20 minutes before lecture. 9:45-ish am: 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... until it was over. Fact 2: my parents would have to quarantine for 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... 't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  first sighting of the Taj from the entrance chamber-- And a close-up;   We got up at 3 am to get to Nandi Hills for this view-- And this ... [/caption] Friday nights were for office dinners at scenic restaurants like these

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  should I do?"* *Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up ... for them to look like this before clicking "Go." After you click go ... ended up ordering my chicken wings and they should be here in about 1/2 an

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  , so I curled up in Hayden with Moll Flanders. I usually sit up on the ... and trudged to the BPL (Boston Public Library) for the John Adams ... Ivy League drama at the exhibit: For present-day Ivy League drama

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is ... stressful! So we agree, we are all stressed. For this entry I propose that ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  '05. I dressed up as Indiana Jones for a friend's post ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... my eyes during camera flash, so I usually end up looking ridiculous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... beating myself up over it last year, but I was right for being pissed off at ... old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023