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• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  layover in Chicago later, I realized that I'd forgotten it was possible for ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... wide range of opportunities, and I’m able to serve my country in a way

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  up going in very interesting directions. I almost wish I’d had an older ... This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... let you guys know I'm not dead, Haha. Will have a more in depth check in

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol article. So, I watched season 1 and some of seasons 2 and 3, but I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  the question is, as Elizabeth would say, "totes inapropes", I ... closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... New England Regional (more details here). Now I've been to sports games

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  ’m in 4 classes this semester, and it’s been miserable. I decided to take ... motivated in my classes, I find it hard to care sometimes.  I’m envious of ... science major. I’m in this perpetual three-way tug-of-war between math

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

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New ... languages I’m really interested in are Chinese and French. Since I ultimately ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would ... Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... were staying in mit for winter break. that night and the next night i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... classes are all tough, but I take some consolation in the fact that I didn ... I won't be here in the Spring (more on that below!). Academics aside

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... ... exist in spaces surrounded by people. I wrote something similar back in ... what in-person campus life is really like. I run into people constantly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... that's because I like seafood and steak.  You could easily get your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  appear creepy. So as any self respecting artist would do, I sought to ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] a graphical representation[/caption] What I’ve noticed is ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  -time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my ... entertaining. Nor are these meant to be super entertaining. In fact, I kinda hope ... ! I'm still getting used to filming important things in my life, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an ... boyfriend: "I don't know, but I wish I could ride in a boat that's being towed ... I've lived near Boston my whole life, but I had no idea that there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004