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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  a bummer week, and my days were punctuated with a lot of downs. But something really, really rad also happened this week, and I want to tell you ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... throughout the week and 7 times to pee--once after my last class every day, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag, and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... into the upper echelons of campus administration, and in the week before break, some folks attempted to make actual change. President Reif and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It ... , from isip “mind” and sanayan “practice”; hence sipnayan, mind practice. I ... you’re done saying it. The words “tangent” and “integer” are cognates

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  still have not seen and will probably never see. life lacks closure like always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of this remarkable experience and everything that came with it. i know i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• 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 ... many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... arrival. I had just finished unpacking, and my room was missing a trash can

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

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay ... play the same games over and over, so I get through games at a slower ... Markup, back when I made my incremental games post, and I got into them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... until days later, when the sky finally cleared, and the sun shone down, melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  and animations, and since then, we have been part of the exec team as co ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you ... me, and I feel that, until last weekend, I didn’t really have a day ... we stored all of our class supplies. This took us an entire day and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts-and ... consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  (almost) halfway point of getting through MIT. It marks many psets and exams and essays and projects. It marks low points and high points, good times and bad. It marks many late nights and early morning and some late

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  -shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  exactly did all that time go? That's an answer too long and boring for this post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a ... systems research and development, c) exciting, by which I mean "Stargate SG

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I had intended to give mine to another relative but forgot to, and so they ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  , and while I'm not the best writer, I've found that this formula works ... and Culture class: Each paper must be an original written piece of work ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule ... blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... summer internship, and have only been concerned about settling down and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016