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• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at ... from home was not really an option. In response, my first semester here I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... in exchange for some research or teaching activities. Last week, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... trees. One year ago I was in Venice, fairly certain this virus everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... right place. "....", I would really like to try to help however I can. I ... someone who can. All, I am sorry to have to remove or edit parts of that

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

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules ... feasible?  there are other moments where i lose myself in work. lately i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but ... in Iowa that had barely changed since I left it, and my old friends

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  assume I should put this in the optional essay part but can you verify ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... can offer guidance. But sometimes I’ll see a Linkedin update about ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  closest elementary school friends nor I can remember the silly acronym that ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021