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• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... drop the class, for a few more reasons: Firstly, I just wasn’t enjoying ... extracurriculars than classes. I’m an undergraduate assistant for a class, I’m in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  metaphysical walls of Sachse, Texas, where I’d grown up. They had immigrated from ... structure felt so detached from my world as a fourth grader, but I knew they ... sign that I am convinced has been there for a decade, especially when it

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  it into a perfect bow tie (where am I going with this metaphor let ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... network for a summer internship and scheduled a second meeting in a few days

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• 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 ... , where you've just purchased a steamed pork bun. And you walk back to the ... your schedule for the semester and noticing that, for the first time, you

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

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small ... , for a one time only fee of five dollars (just kidding) you can join this ... territory (we were Blue) and were spotted. I made a run for it and somehow

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first ... chunk from 8. 6.004 (Computation Structures): Another class where I know ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... , meet Franky '15. I met him during CPW a number of years ago that I won ... for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... 't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted ... deposit), and can enter a lottery for a locker in the DuPont locker room. Oh

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  . Normally I would say that sounds like a really bad idea, but it hasn’t turned out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... I don’t fully comprehend. For me, IAP meant that I was rowing, working

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is about half of them) on a slow day, I find myself puzzling the many

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  , check out Jennifer's Bakery. I hope you have a good Easter, Passover ... A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  through LEDA, a program for high-achieving students from under ... since at least the eighth grade. Coming from a low-income background where ... changes.  Overall, WISE is a valuable time for students to get advice from

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  a less morally-prescriptive framework for evaluating whether or not I ... . "Hey, thanks for texting me," I said. "Remember me when you become a ... oversubscribed. "I've written a few raps," Wenjun said. "What about you?" "Get me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  blog from the road whenever I can find a wifi connection. And if I ... info session is followed by a campus tour, so we can take for granted ... I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  . MIT is a tool you can use for your education, but there many others that ... with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know, decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  mail that was postmarked on 12/8/05, this was a postal error - I can ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a separate entry for each that includes more information from someone who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... fruit. At breakfast, we met Feyi (a young woman from San Francisco) and an ... Cambodia, at a center for children with disabilities. They felt particularly

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

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  student center, where the American Red Cross was holding a blood drive. I ... I sensed what seemed like a big chunk missing from my inner lip. "Oh ... . Then of course there's the hole from where I donated blood. Then there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007