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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... and on my bike, riding through the cold and wet January air. I rode

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  . It is now covered in graffiti such as witty poetry and linear algebra homework, and it changes regularly throughout the year. Currently written on said whiteboard: "I hate everyone and everything, including you." -Keri

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... , one 1 hour recitation current material: We've discussed and graphed ... , drinking, and obesity. eventual material: Social insurance and redistribution

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  and try to fall asleep. unfortunately my neighbors are having a lengthy conversation in our suite lounge, and it’s just loud enough that it’s preventing ... interview (that’s what happens when you go to college during covid) and i was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  A few days ago, I was talking with Nisha and other friends, and the ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  I’m still working on my post about Mystery Hunt, and I realized it ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least ... room to my right swayed with me, and so did the world four stories down ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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