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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... topic for more than ten or fifteen minutes without starting to wander or ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... to Starbucks for hot chocolate when I don’t make it to the cafe in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... schedule.[annotation note="thank you to fellow blogger Fiona for making me ... sightreading, and I even got to play The Legend from Deltarune for my prepared

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into ... watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun ... to help out your friends" are pretty universal, for instance), but ... , to death. My point is that there's probably something for you here no

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:     кошка кошка + кошка собака   I’ve decided to try an ... think it makes me more of a voice and less of a person. Hopefully this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College ... Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... -MIT Exchange Program for the 2007-2008 academic year along with 24 other MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are related to Sam's Mom ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common ... headed over to the Garden stripped down to my underwear, and, well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... looked like. For 2016, I wanted to really push for change. I decided I ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  2: art One thing I'm very grateful to MIT for is that it has really ... theater, I want you to imagine boldly who you could be. For the prefrosh ... a pit orchestra, or writing a show for people to see, I’d have told

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... of each session leaves time for participants to ask questions, so if ... talking about navigating the transition from a small town to a big city for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  , I started jogging for the door, while the Dalek announced to everyone ...     (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how ... (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  for certain whether this was related to the event or merely incident to ... gathering for some event, really, I couldn't care less about it. I wanted to ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three ... out for yourself if a school is the right fit for you. To be honest, I ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially ... mailing lists asking for people to join us, and by the next week we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... Gold Award projects. I'm learning to ice skate for PE credit (I'm from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... April I started to miss all the dimensions of my personality I'd thrown ... 's much easier for me to justify skipping a workout when all that's at stake

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  -related material on the side in order to “not lose interest in economics.” Personally ... each theory were true. Essentially, we would have to decide for ourselves ... yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016