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• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  ! This semester I'm taking 6 classes, but I like to tell people it's 5 ... originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  to be able to do whatever, whenever. To be free, in essence. The first ... , and let my dreams of hair dye fade away. The first time I wanted to dye ... .” Though I didn’t get around to dyeing my hair that first year, I did

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  first lesson in the lab was learning how to use a pipette, and literally ... Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  choice. The first thing that my parents asked when I told them I wanted to ... first name basis, but I haven't actually met them. Waiting to start the ... heartbreaking stories. I had originally planned to publish one to three pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... ="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three ... [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in ... guilty for not constantly tooling. To my amazement, the wallowing never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  cj: pushes feet apart wayne: no i mean you need to keep your center of ... physics when ice skating wayne: you can also bend your knees to keep your center of gravity closer to the ground cj: ah, just like in every other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to ... (Nashua, NH). I used to think I was obsessed with things until I read her

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... ="111897" image5="111896" /] We went to see the opera “Lysistrata, or The Nude

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... , "Just books?" As much as I wanted to impulsively blurt something sarcastic

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  first, I wrote down "Chalk prompt of the week! amongus" to let people know ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to ... . And as I’ve navigated my way through those dangerous waters, I like to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  back to a "Classes First" mindset when I'm so ready to work and make ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a month-long intensive Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  . A game always (rather loosely) compared to Tetris when one first sees ... the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... ) pretty nonexciting, b) nonexciting to people who don't care about operating

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real ... copious amounts of work I have to complete. I am thoroughly enjoying my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009