Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help ... all kinds of prehistoric beasts, and the Grand Canyon. (Which was kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  and why campus should be open. That's kind of a spicy opinion, so we ... methods of making things sit in the digital world, mainly in the form of ... first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  offered us an impromptu tour of Random Hall, which we gladly accepted. And ... Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... 't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... ignore terrible advice. I've gotten a lot of what makes MIT hard

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  John Green, where he talks of a poem that opens with "Twenty men crossing ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of ... run out of clothes, and doing it weekly is actually much less stressful ... understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead of my bed.  I have scoured thousands of my pictures trying to find a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  in table groups, and reflected on some of the capabilities that define ... thoughts We created a fleet of Lego aircraft as part of a simulation based ... action-packed week, and I’m interested to hear your opinions on some of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... , because I am having horrifying thoughts of smashing into sidewalks, cars ... from a place where gloves are like a weird, unnecessary type of sock. 7

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  Zedaph, and the continuous theme of his Hermitcraft Season 9 adventures has been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022