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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a part of this organization since 2004, and this was my 4th visit to Uganda

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and ... at CPW to go through every single one, so I'll just highlight some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  were NOT indeed the whims of a giggling school girl and the only two ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  sweatshirt). One of my best friends from high school spent the summer ... of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  , during a pandemic, during the first week of school? Surely it could not ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  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 Annie:((("]graduated.[/annotation] This and the influx of new faces have

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

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever ... school was safer, even though I felt I really wanted to go into public health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies ... hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  missed over fifty days of school each year since fourth grade, and I ... winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be ... around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  their business in for the entirety of the 6 hour flight.   8:30pm ... course of the next many painful hours. Is the blog still live: Nope (last ... past hour, and i've passed several groups of people discussing whether

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  high school, I knew I was some amount of queer (not a bad word implicitly ... The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  of school is encouraged. This comes in the form of study breaks ... my first day of school even started, and my sorority is a community I ... sorority actually meant, so it hadn’t crossed my mind until one of my soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was one of those experiences where you come away with distinct feelings, although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  while blasting Entry of the Gladiators.  https ... the exact opportunity I was looking for. In my senior year of high school, I had gotten into amateur juggling and realized my true dream: not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  'm glad I don't go to school near my hometown, I feel a certain air of ... friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  I knew. I try to base it on wordcount, outside of school; 1k words a ... incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020