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• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... are cool but not viable with my training schedule. Internship

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... away, I put my headphones on and I play some Taylor Swift. My go ... shake it off, shake it off, I, I, I…”, I’m bobbing my head and feeling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... completely and totally made my day and my Halloween, and I think is now officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two ... bodies. My sandwich lay forgotten until well past noon. How do you know ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20. This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning ... for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  I know, long time no see. My last entry was almost exactly four ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  My summer internship ended on Friday, August 17. Today was the first ... wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... pretty empty, and partially because there was never anyone waiting at my ... was one week where three or four times, I showed up seconds after my bus

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

   usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove ... two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering over my shoulder to see what I was reading.  "And weren't we going to

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the ... 't know what my talents or gifts might be, but I went anyway because hey

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  out my bio here. If you want to find out a little more about me, feel ... adventures and exciting things to show you. Starting now. As my first ... long line of pilots, you see. My father was a pilot, and... yeah, that

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  my seat – and delivered a full serenade. Some knelt down, some held ... delight of everyone else. Before I deliver some love messages of my own, I ... GLANCE AT ANNA'S RIDICULOUS THURSDAY 12:48am: Finish my 8.022 (Electricity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind ... success, among other things (e.g. moving my bed to the other side of my room

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... running late for class on Thursday. I parked my bike, quickly locked it, and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  movie/drama/DDR marathon! So I found my friends Tuesday and asked, "Have ... 's my chance to STUDY!" "I have some major catching up to do!" "AHHHHH evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... Lagrange multiplier no longer bamboozles my intellect. If I ever met Charles

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... .” My goal for the upcoming academic year is to expand into as much ... Manifest Destiny for my blog.) Anyway, the fact that I've used a legless

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009