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• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course ... Chinese dinners with my relatives for a week was great! Still, nothing ... ALUM. I ate delicious Chick-fil-a and Tex-Mex food. I played (and lost

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  from katara cultural village[/caption] At night, we booked a tour where ... year. [annotation note="a correct assumption, as I went around the city ... 't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be

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

  Blast from the Past

  

  So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods ... Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... ESP has been renovating their website and now I can't seem to find it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... I was out there on the ice, I skated with a purpose, for the joy and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... enough that I didn't notice for months. The car he drove was a hand ... me visiting the beach house never resurfaced. For him, I did a lot

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, I work as a learning assistant for ... competition. I think we should be getting a good seed for NEWMACs at the end of ... a typical day, I wake up at 9:00 AM to get ready for the day. Before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had ... stalls (ranging from 'when i go there's always a stall available' to 'there ... 't bother buying a custom domain for it since, well, it's not that serious

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  suspicion that if it were normal times, I'd still have a slight distaste for ... felt where I could most be myself. And every day my heart aches for these ... a good group nonetheless. And I cannot wait for that day.

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  . for instance, maybe i want to buy asset 1 from marketplace 1 and asset 2 ... -knowledge proofs for authentication then hackers can’t steal your login info from a ... differently, i can take any finite function f, a secret input x, a public output

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful ... roommate, said, "Yes! It's the once a year time that I can [annotation note ... the app said we were two minutes away from the Chick Fil A, I realized

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

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

  

  just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... to lure them closer so that I could hop on and take one for a ride ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  the most help from and collaboration with others. Freshman spring: I psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... time to develop the deep, genuine trust needed to take a person through

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i ... whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... range for maybe a minute max. theoretically, if i were typing at full

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  , not today” or lean their head towards me so i can ruffle their hair a ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to ... really hope they don’t), but nothing happens. i back away for a minute

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a ... wonderful college experience that I wouldn't trade for anything, at a school

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  :20 (So ridiculous considering I lived a ten-minute drive from the school ... provided me, and I’d go to McDonalds for the Wi-Fi, where I would learn all ... from schools that I was confident I was going to get into. I got a likely

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  -win-win to me. Shameless plug: You can read a story from my time here ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  mirchi[/caption] Friday was where things started to pick up. I had a ... Contact. I passed out face down on a beanbag for an hour and then walked to ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  ! A for effort! Now, we're sitting on the plane from Panama to Quito ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know ... can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons ... moments — maybe about three times a week? — where I have to convince myself

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021