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• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... conveniently landed on my last day in Kansas and I was able to visit my old team

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... personal identity in an MIT class, in pairs, and a classmate comes up to me ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... cool to be done with non-applied math (*sigh of relief*). In terms of ... energetic projects. Here, it kind of gets in the way of me having the work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met ... about. Afterwards, I went to my favorite restaurant in Harlem, Manna

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos ... in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent ... ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the dock. In order to get away from the dock, you have to get the boat ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Prakash, getting in some last-minute shopping, and preparing to leave. My ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... (technically not during IAP) was the chance to celebrate New Year's Eve in London

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... characters, like Walt Disney set up back in the thirties, to get invested in ... software, so it’s all in-house, but by the time they get on to it the story

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015