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• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  , the leaves would redden and fall, and I’d slide back into the immediacy ... responsibilities or commitments. This summer, I decided I would make up for my ... engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  stick your head in wet paint. How did I stick my head in wet paint ... tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  would calm down by mid-May. at the end of April, I had my training weekend ... 'm confused about how I'll be able to participate in MEET if I'm seven hours ... job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... blog I would note that I was wearing spandex with pockets (!!) from Big 5 ... space. I told her how I was exhausted from taking seven classes, but was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  sister and I would provide very little help—we’d work on our schoolwork ... never having been a student government type of person, I think about how ... they likely always will. Yet I am doing things which I certainly would

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks ... that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into ... ="72486" /] How does this compare to two years ago? In my sophomore IAP blog post, I ... , sophomore IAP; I would pause, in the late afternoon sunlight or the early

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new ... , something i never thought i would do in week one. i still ask steven at least ... unfair and what if it would always be this way. what if i graduate and end

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ...   I counted today, and since freshman year orientation I have

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  about that. I would like to point out, however, that I was the only one at ... Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  [annotation note="Technically, they're 6 credits, or half a class, but I would not ... , that we use our creativity. I thought it would be cool to have a sky ... [annotation note="Weird how the name isn't related at all to the action, I know :P

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... visualize scheduling options"]fireroad[/annotation] and thinking i would get ... . exactly how i want it. SPOILER ALERT: NO IT DID NOT GO LIKE THIS AT ALL

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with ... flexibility. I would try to practice my flexibility at home, but I wasn't good enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... if I would be able to since he didn't have Wi-Fi at his apartment. One ... , I felt like a pebble in a never-ending stream of people. It would be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  posed with the question of what I would do. One piece of media couldn ... obligations, what would I do? When I woke up every morning, I could think about ... where you think “I would do this thing…if I had time”? I know I have a lot

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  about them, so I would like to point you to their Tumblr page about their ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact known how to MIG weld. However, I did not. I had been trained on TIG ... . You don't know how to replace it. Needless to say I did all of these

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning ... most awesome people I know. Two years ago, I would’ve laughed at you if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010