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• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... the same 36-hour period during dec 8th and 9th, making the preceding days and weeks extremely busy, and privilege because i thought all three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW" but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is ... jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like a sack of jelly and push him around or pick him up or throw him or do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... 's Part 1, unmodified. The last sentence is particularly cute and naive ... Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something ... college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came ... and in exasperation had gone to stop & shop and purchased her first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... publish a few of each of our favorites below, and I've noted which prompt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  bars, culture spanning thousands of years, and heated toilet seats. This ... and internships in Japan!!"]MISTI Japan program[/annotation]. I was ... of the electrical system and the power consumption of the mission, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMxRBYQs5k Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, remember to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure ... highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and ... , somewhat neurodiverse, and very non-scary; we used to be dominated by math

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  My freshman winter break and IAP were very nice, nothing to complain about. I got to fly home and spend two weeks with my family; I came back to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... that momentarily suspends you between the days that were and the days ... and dislocate your knee cap just a few weeks into break, you, my friend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Today is the 121st Boston Marathon, the oldest, and most famous ... Boston, and winds 26.2 miles through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline, and finally Boston, where the freshly-painted finish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  food, battered and deep fried (double deep fried fries?!?). Some regular ... :                   The day before we also hosted a board games and milkshakes night. The ... of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... talk about vacations and compare temperatures (-5 here, -25 in Perm). We talk about my and Cory’s apartment garden, and why my radishes won’t grow

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

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  :30 on Tuesday and studied until 11:30am. That night, after juggling ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on my hall and making new friends with hallmates. I no longer tool alone (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... concert, featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus! The opening act was Scavenger Hunt, and they were really awesome! I got to test out my new camera

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014