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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... moons embroidered in gold. I love celestial aesthetics for the idea that ... standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  “art is created inside this space,” but after three long years, I can ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one ... , two musicians can play in adjacent rehearsal rooms and not hear each

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  down some stretches of road are so flat, I swear you can see your own ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  th street) to the eyeglass store where I wanted to buy some new frames ... have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  when we were buying groceries from Wholesome Fresh, and I'm kind of in ... , though. there's a channel in the 2024 discord where people can send ... I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  can only be content in the woods for so long. I want to contribute. Not ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  alright for the psets. Where would I be?" "Well... I'd say you'd be in the ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  the pain. Wonderful. In a few minutes, I can barely move both my arms ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Lammermoor. Now, I can appreciate opera and everything--Lucie's mad scene in ... with my application, so here's what I sent in: They can't refuse to ... Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  where I stayed for three days and two nights in a hostel. While seafood in ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  with Raymond showed me that I can be in these really intense, serious ... ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... 've resulted in a path where I held on to that anger and that hurt and hurt other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would ... time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013