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• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  shops here are closed. They say I can go in + I say "It’s okay, I’m just ... , in these two and a half months. Am I editing the way I want? Where do ... , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... dinner. So fast forward two years, I'm graduating in about 7 months, and I ... hands I devoted more time in lab, more time with friends, and I think I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... generations of students. As someone active in student government, I spend a lot ... goes down to green, but where they increase in intensity when something

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  them. I figured this out 10 minutes after buying my pen, when I showed it ... was plenty of time, but till, who wants to wait in line? I made it ... with free wi-fi). The flight was short, since I'm in Oregon for the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... going in this discipline. But job aside, I’ve also distilled what I want ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

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

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in the last years, I'm embarking on a multi-part project called "Where are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  'll talk more about this in a future entry, and hopefully I can even profile ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I ... Verde's (grocery store in the student center) and bought a banana. At this point, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when ... blocks.” Mary's is where you will buy dinner for your friends on their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  , which you can find in better resolution at the website I linked above ... was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , not really, I was just kidding." "No, seriously, you can bounce, get in ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... , and on Saturday evening I went out with James '11 and Sara '12 to buy

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  can also keep in mind that I will be repaying tuition loans for the next ... Coulomb's Law. Did you know that I'm probably one of the few people in human ... minutes. Lance Armstrong, that is. (Just kidding. I can assure you that we

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... cross-registered at MassArt where I am taking Industrial Design 1. Though out all my classes I can see that design is literally around us all

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free ... and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from ... thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018