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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  the edge of the unknown for me, personally. The path of the train up to ... -by in order for freight trains from the railroad in charge to pass them ... exceptions to this lie primarily in the Northeast; Amtrak owns the track for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... reps, and space for us to track our progress. Each class we would run ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  surprisingly fun. you can check out our Github for it here. it was super fun to ... aspire to work on more personal projects like this during the semester, but i never have enough time for them. went to TWO concerts: fun fact, i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  to be my defining personality trait. I’m an assertive, extroverted ... ="Computer Science"]6-3[/annotation] perhaps isn’t the place for me. I’ve decided to ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... somethin’), kinda hard for those new to coding; and 2.003, Dynamics, less ... for a semester.  The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... ’ve happily called it home for the past 17 years. However, I’ve now been yeeted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for ... first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of ... past few weeks. also, i had shut away my internal to-do list for the ... my god WE’RE NOT AT MIT!!!”  i’m really grateful to my class for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  what shoes to wear for summer. And no, it wasn't some peer-pressure thing ... mailing list for MIT students to get help with all sorts of conundrums. I ... to be so much material for the lapel that it might just be a waterfall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  second floor. You’re too busy praying for the elevator to go faster to ... little apprehensive about having to cook for yourself, but you’re confident ... [/annotation] for two years to pay for it.” “Oof.” You walk over to a large

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  have more time for myself here- which I think is really important to ... better and might be easier to talk to about personal matters. 2. Your ... time to study for exams here and actually feeling like I could do very

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  -classical concert :0 Man am I a sucker for museums! MIT provides free access to ... trip for people traveling. Yes, we went to a museum every day ... It’s Veteran’s Day, which means it's been one year since my For Real

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  project I've been working on for the past two ish years and want to try to ... do for the project. But I need to accept that it would take too much ... again. There has to be a middle ground, though. I'm still looking for it.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment ... -nighter”: pull an all-nighter (informal, v.): "to stay up all night." Personally ... (alternatively, civil dusk to civil dawn)  to be awake continuously for 24 hours

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin ... country's primary language for various reasons, but still have to navigate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  try to make it to each lab session every friday afternoon. for a class ... never sat there for more than a few moments before i returned to the ... to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  !! Thanks everyone for such a fantastic week :) and thanks to my dear friend ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate ... exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• 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…

  

  've forsaken for years in order to bang my head against various engineering ... world needs people like me for something. So, I went to my fall-back: the ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

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