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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and ... getting lots of responses to my applications, did several phone interviews

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  should have been sleeping. 1) Honing my crepe-making skills. I recently ... can treat themselves to a mix of the city's tastiest cuisine. My ... dinner for a cute restaurant we found on Yelp. The only problem was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius ... , where I would get most of my meals from networking events with free food ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  watching everyone else on my floor leave MIT forever and their rooms get ... , my parents are here this weekend, and we've started packing up my room--never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was very cute. After my second Geocentrism to Exoplanets class, I ... wearing earrings that said "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" and my audiences were ... reference during one of my classes, to thunderous applause. - My first class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  thoroughly impressed by everyone's lamps at the end. This blog covers my design ... showcase. casting, cutting, CNC'ing, oh my! Each day featured a new design ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  my roommates (aka Emiko), then went to bed." Football student ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... my passion for sports."  Men’s soccer student-athlete: "So far I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  .00). We had to make a game of Hangman using Python. Thankfully, my roommate ... ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my bed to hug my pillow. There’s something absolutely beautiful about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work ... ’ve never really written poetry beyond the flowery text in my zine comics, so ... like my summer internship “i love going to Trader Joes to pick up chicks

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  being my roommate. So we hung out around Puerta del Sol for awhile, then ... (whose number I still can't remember), a monthly metro pass, my own desk at ... sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  Facebook (in which case, I have to forcefully pluck my eyes off cute cat ... In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  - Whenever my roommate wasn’t around, I would play this song really loudly and ... ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  them, but not for more than an hour. Food (^my roommate and I killed ... wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  So I shared my blog entries with Alicia, the MISTI-Spain Program ... info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International ... my interests and preferences, and eventually got an email from her

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... bathroom, the thought of calling FIX-IT immediately left my brain. And the ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading ... occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  , and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my ... ’d been eyeing for a while. I strutted around for a bit before my ankles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  back into [annotation note="my dorm <3"]Maseeh[/annotation], with all my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags, Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023