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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... , hand-made, and revamped goods. It reminds me of the Fenway Flea in Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... – some of the routes promised clear signage and well-maintained roads. I swore I would try it out sooner rather than later. The idea of biking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• 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…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in: because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which ... eat a yogurt parfait made of the following: One sliced banana 1 ... sodium and high in protein and fiber!  It also meets about 20% of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... slightest bit windy—but one of the most noticeable changes will be the freshly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my ... 's definitely in the minority of computing choices. What you'll notice about MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  , I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that ... sugar and red meat out of my diet, and since those are most of the things ... Phantom of the Opera by my a cappella group, the MIT Ohms (I solo at 2

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... written, a lot of the quiz questions felt pointless because they asked us to ... carefully. 18.404 Theory of Computation I love this course and the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... as if i was abruptly thrust into the world of icebreakers! and New ... have fallen in love with the strong sense of community i’ve experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... . Academically, I had a bit of rough time this semester, and the main reason was 8 ... give you a little background. As part of the GIRs (short for General

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007