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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  arrests but that none of us knew how to revive a dead ambulance. So we ... remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure ... you don't need to take. So, here's how it goes. Physics: The GIRs are ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how ... to [insert mildly obscure musician here], and their random album from 2018. I keep having new ones, and I want some way to document why I like

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After ... hosts taught me how to say “I will never love again”; he says it’s common ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do justice to how otherwordly it is. For a day, I was a princess ... the full details on how to jumpstart a car, since Caitlin and I returned ... day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might ... first lesson in the lab was learning how to use a pipette, and literally ... trying to fight without knowing how to hold the sword properly - hence the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... wanted to spend a summer in Berlin specifically – it's a very unique city

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  free admission to), forward it to Cory, and think about how we should go ... (totally intentional) distance, I want to tell you about four days this past ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... talk with her, to which she gave me a pep talk about how I need to stop ... and began following a YouTube video on how to draw fruit with pastels

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  about her job, her experiences, and how she contributes to keeping this ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... break, expecting to be mostly alone, knowing that it’d be really different ... to people. It’s gotten to me. It’s not that there aren’t people around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ? How much should I factor in money over passion in a career to increase ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E  R O U T E  H O M E Before

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  to grilled cheese. Avocado? Peanut butter? Bacon? We know how to ... cheese H Entry: Creative Cooking with H Entry Learn how to survive and ... . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this ... the Arts Scholars to see The Tempest at the American Repertory Theater

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  team demonstrated how to strap the boots onto a horse—which of course ... , “How’s it glowing?” to resounding laughter. “We’re excited to introduce ... educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  , stage managers, and directors to meet and talk about how the show is ... ) and it’s bound to be a good show. For me, it’s wonderful how easy it is ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013