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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  : the rush of wind past a double-decker train (nothing) Breaking my “at ... few minutes listening to the two people—one of them a train conductor—at ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... . Kids laughing.  Fun costumes. Some kids crying at the sight of a skeleton ... how it connects us. At MIT, we read applications from every kind of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... 's hard not to be hopeful. At the rally, one of the speakers had said that ... 's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors ... looking at pictures of agarose gels for my UROP, doing my 6.042 (Math for ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos ... orders aside, you are correct. I will be working at Los Alamos National

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... competition, running a Book Exchange for students at the beginning of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... should be about as good at taekwondo as I am at chemical engineering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... with all the members of Toons at that callback, I really enjoyed it. It ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best ... this week welcoming members of the freshman class at a couple of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting, direct applications etc. Less than 20% of students got their job

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list ... Street subway stop -- at the crossroads of the red line, the green line ... , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... connection only when I’m at the precipice of catastrophe; I want to appreciate ... ’s abundant. I am not always doing my best at all of these things, but I am

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011