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• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... ask! Seriously, you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is ... clarinet in the MIT Wind Ensemble. I did not play the bass clarinet before

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Internships in F/ASIP, you can always take a really cool Advising Seminar. I ... , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  paper I read in 14.11: Experimental Economics reports that too many choices can be demotivating. (You may have seen this research quoted in the ... ? What do people think about this Nike+iPod Sport Kit? Vote in the comments

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... thought you once had that you can no longer grasp. I will never have REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9 ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I ... knowing where to park your car between safe periods. Most of the time, I can

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... , where my family is and I return for the holidays, where I can get behind ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Park after shopping in the CambrdigeSide Galleria Mall, but I like going ... (wonderful) [annotation note="my boyfriend and i walked in a random direction ... ,[/annotation] but I'm [annotation note="that's amoryyyy"]in love with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  . "Oh my god, hey! I haven't seen you in so long. How are you?" High ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  . This semester, I have been feeling what I can only describe as an overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I ... mentioned by expatmom in the comments) After checking out the Fair, I headed ... .370 Robocraft competition); I think he wanted to find out how he could join the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  thing you can do after seeing shows on Broadway ™ in NYC ™. But apparently ... 's child, baking, for the first time in her life, can't mask her problems ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  prefrosh. I’m curious to see how your view of me changes once I start talking ... , like Firefox with adblocker enabled. In that case you can click here. ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012