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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into ... nothing more than to hold one in my own hand, a phenomenon that I thought ... Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  check it out. I'll be playing Silly Girl #1, a demanding role for an ... DChen '10 said, "when I left CPW, I was left with a longing to return ... Campus Preview Weekend starts TOMORROW! Are you pumped? I know I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  could my interests change in such a short period anyway? (Plus, I ... in course 3. Before coming to MIT, I’d never particularly enjoyed ... clarinettist (a materials science grad student) what exactly people study in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... around campus all Winter into Spring. I made a mental note to check it out ... stacked alongside smoking test tubes. I was sipping a drink and taking it

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  a lot of them. I didn’t even know what being Kosher entailed besides ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... . This isn’t a big deal in normal life- I mean, you just exercise a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I ... , and has been teaching the class for longer than I've known what a ... . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  Now with my internship going into its 8th week, I figured I should write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  help me? Right now I am in the 8th grade. And what exactly is a problem ... isn't really a fair trade, is it?..) Ella ponders: I read what you wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  want to. You can wake up without a blaring alarm, note the snow out the ... you can walk to Red Line and find that, without checking the schedule, you've arrived exactly one minute before your train. One of those

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT ... a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.   Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of ... need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... discovered this morning in my scanner. I never took it out after making copies

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  there who have built bottle rockets before or participated in a similar ... ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... of May, I took part in my very first half-marathon. What that means

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... because I enjoy life-pondering and expressing it, I’ve also been taking a great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall ... wrench a cute skirt from the hands of some other vulture. It was, in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I'll only be near my computer for a little while longer before I head ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  [annotation note="There was a time in lecture when Joe asked “What was the first ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... . Never before had I felt such satisfaction from pushing a button and having

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... jazz (and confession, I've actually taken most of it once before I ... probability. Probability is really the foundation of a lot of analysis in EECS

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012