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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  , and suddenly (like magic!) I had enough energy to keep going for a while ... we stopped for a proper break. I had to do that a couple more times ... arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours ... account for mistakes. We should put in our schedules, she said, noon to 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... puzzle...but it was definitely worth it. For "That'll Tichu to Mess With ... MIT is famous for? It also needs to be named after a tectonic plate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... Force. I have too many great things going on now for me to worry about ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  were intended for. We also made sure not to pedal directly behind it ... summer and commuted to Rhode Island for work), cranked up the air ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  justice to a happy piece so I really appreciate this album for discovering ... the 1 for a very long time but I have come to really like it. It also ... always feels like a conversation to me except neither person is being heard

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... to go on a long walk, and so I dedicated a day to preparing for it, a ... first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to ... ride my bike for nearly an hour every day to speed up the part of my ... . It’s nice that the commuter rail exists for getting to suburbs outside

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  to figure it out. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for a big ... parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some ... same criteria to evaluate applications for both EA and RA. Take the time you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... Py and pandas for my calculations, and matplotlib and seaborn to make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  started to form their own mechanisms for deciding room assignments within ... students to stay in their assigned hall for their entire time at MIT. It also ... to Taji Manning '25 for creating these! Architectural Principles There

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... to another nearby hotel, but cover the cost to make up for the ... ) call, and let me know that they are shutting down for the weekend due to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get personalized autographs for my girlfriend, who loves the show (as do I) for it ... will be until after I give them to her. Hooray for expensive accidents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010