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• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  technicals and a CI-H, a writing intensive humanities class. It's a perfectly legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  you But now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you And I'd probably ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  experience that challenged us, July. We got some things right and many things wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  some #Content for you: last November, Loren S. '17 and I were interviewed ... Day 2015. Loren and I collaborated, with Elizabeth, on that video (and this past spring's droid delivery video, and also the Tim Beaver epic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas ... rush. This means feasts and festivity. Festivities like poetry slams, strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that ... time to dress myself and perform my morning rituals (namely brushing my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  again will be thrown away, and students will be scattering across the ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the ... tacked up outside my room: And since then, people have been adding their

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston ... hike uphill in the snow, and it was absolutely beautiful. There was snow

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... and this is our last chance to make certain that every detail is perfect so that you will have the most enjoyable and information experience we

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... fellow student the other day about MIT and she commented that IHTFP ... here and what you got yourself into, but if you take a few seconds and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  it isn't any fun. My bones creak and ache and I can tell when the weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the good old days, back when men shaved with straight razors and Fraggle Rock

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I've been writing lab reports, doing labs, learning, measuring, and pretty ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2 ... , and poetry. These are things I could have worked on tonight. Instead? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  Seriously, I am really, really bad at not tripping and falling over ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting ... -covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  day and already some strange things are appearing around campus. Have you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... any one time and you will have to make choices, so the probability that you and anyone else will have a similar experience is 1 in a bajillion

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... amazing woman (and, yes, an MIT alumna). Together, we will declare our love before our gathered family and friends, and celebrate our union. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007