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• 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 / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  many projects in my life. While MIT students have IAP in January and take ... former bloggers, queuing their posts, and absorbing their stories, I got the itch to write. And when Celena C '12 said that she was going to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... between classes, people, and personal projects. I was somewhat exhausted by the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... and sculptors, aviators and architects, poets and poi spinners — they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... , but no one ever talks about the details and issues and real problems you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art.  The Burton-Conner Graduate Resident Tutors (GRTs) both plan and organize ... as flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and, of course, apples. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM-DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and then we decide whom, if anyone, we want to take off the wait list, and ... accept the offer, and thus how many beds you have available in residence

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... place, featuring life updates and interior decorating tips. It’s a new ... process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  fire. East Campus is building a carousel and a gigantic wooden fort ... Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... constant whirring of screwdrivers and construction and fire. But looking a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF. If you're unfamiliar with ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan ... .112. Principles of Chemical Science, 18.022. Calculus, and 18.100B Real Analysis ... . Weekdays are a blur of work and socialization, with lines between the two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be ... , where my family is and I return for the holidays, where I can get behind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  -beep-beep-beep - my alarm goes off, I look out my window, and I realize that once again ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012