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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... epic Journey. I spent two hours in front of that painting, jotting ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  internship; the world would be my oyster. And I was right about those things ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it ... that I was only close with one person in the house I was living in. This

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  of group B, I thought I had convinced my parents that grad school would ... biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... protein does, how does this process work, if I induce this what will happen

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... number-like things. Of course, it would be harder to talk about exactly how ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  my window and breathe in the fresh air; and sometimes when i'm walking ... date it feels like i've missed months of my own life, stuck in a haze of ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  'm not as eloquent on these topics in Spanish as I would be in English, but ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... , but I figured in an effort of maintaining my brand of transparency I ... break, I went to visit my family on Big Island in Hawai'i. I took this as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  [/caption] when i saw hadestown in january 2020, it hit me like a train with ... saw before covid. as was briefly mentioned by fatima, i was in a ... to do it (when would i get the chance to do this again?), and then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I ... media. That response surprised me. I'd been involved in the social media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... :50 A.M. on a Monday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  -of educational center in his [Tavares's] homeland." I had the great pleasure of ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] ABOVE: "How We Make Someone Invisible, 1" (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  was very, very tough. But in retrospect, I would say the sweat, doubt ... “Omg. If I get in next week, I’ll be easy livin' for the rest of the ... ’t define us. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is one of the principles MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  literary feet through a dry analysis and I figured you all would appreciate ... adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... ’m in love with her based on what I’ve gathered from her physical

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  in, just because I wish people in this country would actually vote! I ... . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  giddy rush I felt in Alaska whenever my family would pull over into a ... Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... later], I've already seen them like four times." Ha ha ha how I was wrong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022