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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... know, but it's true!) 1 This made me think of two things I've read in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I ... vignette of her in LEGO.     I made also...Katherine Johnson

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  that you love, for any definition of love <3 I’ve roughly grouped ... cool that I should check out :) In dorm I live in Simmons, so your ... . Make fancy desserts in the dining hall Because if I’m paying that much

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  reviews and more. Note: I think Manning only teaches it in the spring; I can ... . Even if none of these things were true, I would recommend that everyone ... grade in the class, or my bitching about all-nighters, that I thought this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... MIT, heck I was making board games out of cardboard in high school. But

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school ... snippets of Marvel things I did in my first semester: [*] saw filming of ... restaurant (Chik-fil-A) in the first line of my email “to demonstrate that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... in my classes. Thankfully, I was able to pass all of my classes (18.01A ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... list of nearby colleges that I could work off of (and a list of college

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  right on the north side of lobby 7). When I walked in, I was greeted with ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  provides physical artifacts of each week, which can go in my [annotation note='i ... annotation, i wrote a grand total of 2 poems in 2020."]write as much recently ... classes Monday through Thursday means that I can't attend practices in full

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  !   *You can find the rest of my and Kevin's pictures here. (I highly ... ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... coming. I pulled my first real all-nighter – ever – the day of the final ... I’ve been slaving for. There’s an incredible sense of accomplishment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of ... our limbs in a variety of directions. I thought of my first swim lesson ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  part in one of MIT's coveted traditions, and so I gladly accepted an ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022