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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I ... in front of thousands of people during the Boston Marathon would be an ... do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some ... pictures, hands me an extra battery pack just in case, and then tells me to ... location notorious for challenging marathon runners as the last in a series

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  next night there was an infosession for Splash, with Thai food, then ... Among Us, all in the name of "socializing" and "building community". For ... phrase has evolved to be a metaphor for an irrational method to obtain some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  thinking about this actually for the last few years, perhaps in an effort to ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... telethoning, in hopes that they'll be useful for some of the prefrosh we didn ... breaks for sleep in the wee hours of the morning. The entire campus bands

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  mean for you? Well, you'll have an MIT email address, MIT web space ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting ... rock album (like one of my friends did) or an adjective that describes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  what’s in store for you at the institute (out of many other tastes that ... of this journey, just as you do in marriage, for better or worse and in ... feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , feeling wasteful for not going outside, staring mindlessly at my phone, craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in ... days in the future. Navy polos, ugly khakis, eight-plus hours on a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  adopted neoclassicism, an art style which in many aspects attempted to ... -startups. or, for an example not related to career decisions, people often exit a ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... for, and I feel guilty for not explaining that in my talk. Last class ... classes I'm going to teach for Spark and HSSP in the spring. Right now, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  longing for nostalgia after leaving home that suddenly piqued my interest in ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  dancing in exchange for smiles and claps from my grandparents. At around ... an itch, a want to try content creation for real, this time. To pursue finally writing that YA novel I've had planned in my head for years. Or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... I'm happy with. I don't have a lot to show for my interest in AI other ... and over for three hours straight, with no improvement in sight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  that I've learned in my four years at MIT.   2018 - as an Alumni ... *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... in love with movement than usual. I ran up stairs for fun, just because ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  processing the trauma for later. So I like to think about the Nisha in a ... things that I had done for the last time that I hadn't realized. My last ... to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022