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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  very foreign." After wandering around for a while, we stopped at the ... clock tower. This would not have been worth it for the faint-hearted; we ... later that the hike up to Jesus is infamous for robberies. Thank you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... look at that and conclude that I rarely have the space to express the ... fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I ... compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , sorry for the more technical, less “look ... up until 3am almost every night for the past week, studying for tests ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... (for a friend's wedding! a lovely reason to return), ft. a peek at the ... feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  you are looking for something to do, come say hi and hang out ... service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for the Materials Science FPOP known as DMSE, as well as continue to help

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... . For instance, GR1 is about defining the problem statement, identifying ... decided to meet a day earlier (a Thursday, the only day that worked out for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  split into two; one group wandered off to look at the trinkets, and the ... the 1990s called "特别的爱给特别的你", commonly translated as "Special Love for ... breath, and I never really catch my breath for the 1.5 hours of singing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  product looked messy, as ABC costumes do, and the lights were too low for ... a MechE friend. We bond over a shared love for the Killers. David ... .[/annotation] So I picked up the habit of carrying projects around, waiting for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  -Entry, looking out the windows at the storm while wrapped up in blankets or ... braving the cold. For the most part, all I could hear was the wind swirling ... put off finishing all the half-baked blog posts from this month. The

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  engagement, and for simple patterns I can even look up most of the time ... ’t picked up my needles for a loooong time. One day, though, I was in the ... area off to the side. I walked over to take a closer look. There was a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... , for the last two terms I've signed up for 51 units. This should be an ... -transforms. Lots of cool concepts, but the class has a reputation for being "grungy

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... notwithstanding, this is when you get your shit together for the semester ahead ... .09 (Theoretical Mechanics) as the replacement for 8.351 and as a second technical

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  robots to explore other planets. The high point for me was when I was on the flight team for the Magellan spacecraft, which orbited Venus and ... different perspective. For example, characters in the illustrations wear lab

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us ... school record for the 400m sprint if he woke up at 7am and trained every ... deprived brains into looking forward to the next time a pset would be

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... , after all, loves biology. Piper is looking for a summer UROP in bio ... good deal for me ^_^) And that's when I realized that the paradigms I

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  based only upon the places that look most fun to live in - while being ... Frankfurt. I was looking for a lively, yet typically German, location with ... ünstig" of the German flag, cheered for the local soccer team, enjoyed

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  . Suddenly, high school looks so easy, since almost everyone knew the next step ... /PhD program. Some of the details are still fuzzy, for example I still need to ... processes for medical school and the Rhodes Scholarship. Medical School: Most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  at puzzles, running around campus looking for a man dressed as a mutant ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web interface anymore after taking an unintentional sabbatical from the esteemed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011