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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... right up my alley. Several emails, a few rounds of interviews, and one ... roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... the northeast corner of campus; other close stops are Hynes/ICA (right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole life, but when Covid struck, I stopped taking classes. For all of high

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25 ... instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022