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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  and attending entirely different high schools and universities, with ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... their gate got moved? It was pretty dramatic; employees and passengers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the ... to just LET. LOOSE. and jump on everything not class related. I'm not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement ... and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... you're doing one), REX, orientation and rush. There's simply too much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... ++, Arduino electronics & programming, and survey design + human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... [annotation note="blogger crossover!!"]Kano[/annotation] and another of my ... old, and about coming home. I flew back from Europe on February 3rd

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so ... themed concert by the Boston Pops orchestra. He sat on stage and told us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  friend Elissa H. '21 and started talking about Steven Universe because it ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it ... like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... : Exam 1: 52.5%. I may have choked. Turn on the slow-motion cameras, and ... numbness. I considered having a stroke and then decided against it, mostly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I ... "Reply to all recipients?" and "Include original message in reply?" You have to answer these with either 'Y' or 'N.' And you have to be careful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... boring ones? Today's topic is housing, because it's raining out and housing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... least an ocean to walk to and ponder my melodramatic nature over. And while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  semester was the first time that D-Lab: Education was being offered, and I ... internal advising use only, and may have +/- modifiers, dropped ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  this Thursday afternoon as a break, and so the room degree ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  get an engineering degree from MIT and then...you know, not use it ... wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... librarian. I just thought all the electronic scanners and stuff they used all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008