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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  relationships, such as how financial and emotional dependencies can form. I ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... some from the Conner 2 holiday dinner. Unfortunately, I can't find the ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  offering, and I love how I can use this first semester to explore them. ... being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  team in high school? Now you got me thinking about the regional and how i ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for ... -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my ... journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La

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

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... Zeppelin Hopefully you can see how the name of my show is relevant now! Not ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... EC and I walked back to MacGregor, where I pecked at work in my room ... .004 and my UROP code. I spent a lot of time in MacGregor last weekend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without ... and optimistic afterwards. i’ve enrolled in many math and cs and biology ... the first convincing proof i’ve seen that we can actually solve climate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... place. Placed in that context, how did it make me feel? Nothing, honestly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -signers? How long/short can the lease be? When's the earliest you can move in ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... begun! And orientation is about to begin! I'm writing from home, but I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... (Taylor’s Version) announcement on a livestream in my bed // made Spotify

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023