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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  sister is a student at Northeastern University in Boston. When I moved to ... is so different from the version of me that last posted back in ... more energy. In general, you are a happier person.” My mom agreed, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... individual panes of glass — arranged in a meticulous rectangular grid. each

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... world, and people sent in truly wonderful digital artifacts, so i

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... in the 60s by a ragtag band of hockey players that has since evolved ... that we were ever good at hockey...we’ve been in the D-D+ league for IM

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  it was all worth when I was offered the role of Bobby! I was so hyped that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... super thrilled about the rigor. There were times when we’d been in Ten

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ... .6721 Negotiation Analysis, which meets for 8.30-4.30 for three days in a row towards ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  've been sitting in, the [annotation note="in japanese, menma"]bamboo shoots ... person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and thirties. the people in front of me are conversing quizzically about their

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... previous factors still weigh in?" We always look at a given applicant ... statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  practice before entering university. I wanted to focus on my studies while in ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  offered in 5 terms: Quarter 1 (Fall semester through October-ish), Quarter 2 ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... graduate, with at least 1 in each department along with various other rules

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during ... Collegiate Athletic Association, which is the organization in the United States in charge of college athletics

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in ... !" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... leave anything in [annotation note="my dorm"]MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  actually haven’t really had anything noteworthy in this arena - the first ... up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019