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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we ... , we planned an ambitious itinerary to make sure we could get everything ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start ... results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the ... should consider buying if you come. So, without further delay, let's get

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  language eroded some more, so that by the time you get to, say, Spanish ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... the story of the next two days when I get back to sweet, sweet Boston on ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their

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

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... wasn't getting to the other side all I ever wanted? So I took off and ... Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  get access to course materials without the commitment of taking the ... cover P/NR, the GIRs, MIT's grading system, and how to get into the best ... factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be ... ’m hoping I get enough funding to finish our well project; I’m hoping I can ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  attempt at getting to know the whole student?" Absolutely. The more context ... answers to more questions... ------------------------------------- Andrew ... 's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my ... some vocal warmups before getting to the main event: my rendition of ... them. This was when I was still beginning to get more involved in floor

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... desperate to get some numerical data, so I attributed these disappointing ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  get from cleaning your room without anyone telling you to. Apart from ... January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016