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• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this ... my way since then has been subjected to this treatment. I tell myself

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... months to settle back and see what it's like being here and meeting other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning ... organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going ... Engagements committee (SOLE) worked with LSC to set up the screening. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... suggested that we apply. I didn't really know what supplies to apply for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  to skim, if you're into that). Location: East Campus Although ... thursday, and damn am i ready to be home"]my flight home.[/annotation]although i should be trying to get back to sleep, instead i start thinking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... ) promising me that our kids could go to MIT, so I am just going to go ahead and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  10500000 things to say but your mouth and brain are like, "Sorry homie, we are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... to tradition and propriety very much at MIT - the closest thing we have to an official school song is probably the Engineer’s Drinking Song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014