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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  understanding of how I thought, and fully reset.  8. New York I wanted to ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  MIT's campus complete with video clips and 360-degree panoramas of ... ...so bear with me. Me working on one of my planes There are a few constants in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness ... . Okay? And universal history since has seen a kind of evolution of star ... property of the universe, is what blasted out along with everything in it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , Pennsylvania, and New York; about 15 applications so far today, all said. And now, as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012, and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014.']LITERALLY 10 YEARS.[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  've decided to take instead. Applied math and New York are both out of my ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  -King's Programme at the University of Cambridge, taking courses in "The Behavioural ... More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15 (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  , University of Michigan, Duke, the Naval Academy, or UF, we still had what we ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... showcase some MIT-related products that are for sale. All of these are real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  of the fake plants I hung up (not ready to take care of another living ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... mentioned that the same would likely be true of whatever area of new york they ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... 'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017