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• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  bottle were (as Petey aptly puts it at the end of his emails): Sent by ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on ... . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  -set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... things you have uncovered need be cojoined in marriage. At the end of one ... typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in ... , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  grasp, but a part of being a student at MIT. Being a freshman, my initial ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped ... traveling I've done this summer finally reminded me of a guest entry I meant to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . After three flights of stairs and at least five double-doors, you will ... kids. And at the end of it all, we shake hands, cheer for the winning ... My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... other recent alums, some of whom I did not know at MIT. We have a semi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were ... UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... necessary. Upon arrival at the snowman we deemed the head not fixable. We

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... time of my life in college (at a school that was ranked -YIKES- only #20 ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  at MIT, but I definitely do a lot of failing. Perhaps the real problem ... studying at one of the most intense engineering institutions in literally the ... things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic (when I was at an athletic peak, letting running fill the place of so many ... group with fellow walker Tañon. The three of us used the restroom at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the ... Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008