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• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  of my friends asked me: “are you ambitious?” i don’t remember my exact ... ’ve seen enough smart people dedicate their lives to (in my opinion ... would take my hand if I asked, and march until morning comes, dew

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... , assembling aluminum and delrin and re-establishing my relationship with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  wrote a really long post, which is now my longest post on the blogs ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the ... nanowrimo. (by the way my mystery hunt post is coming out tomorrow morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  scampered up ahead of my friends. One of those pictures: The ground was ... approached a quaint red-walled antique store, my watch told me that Raphael ... least the thickness of my forearm lay stretched over the path. I stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , admittedly among countless others, the audience at my information sessions is ... my experiences with MIT mailing lists. Gallivanting with Gilles, or ... will claim it. Here are the five most recent Reuse lists in my Inbox at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  for my cell phone and it was 8:11 AM and I had set my alarm for 7 ... just as the last car was pulling away, crammed my instruments (flute ... countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings ... daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3 ... honored to be working or to be friends with these incredible individuals

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  silicon membrane, and BAMF! Cell phone power! My friend Jacqueline and I ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now ... last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1 ... . But, I realized that before coming to college, I took my home ... a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  ! My dear friend David seems to have hurt himself while smashing computer ... rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my first-choice dorm in the summer housing lottery, and checked into my room

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  example, my friend Jake got a terrific room his freshman year at the East ... to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... rooms each year), but certainly not unheard of. My housing at Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ... he's my mentor and my friend. He just knows me so well, he knows my ... , and when I checked My MIT account it said that there wasn't an interviewer available in my area and that the interview had been waivered. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  you back. and then it got to the point this semester where your friend ... also know that you're very, very lucky. your friends have had a variety ... the friends that you no longer talk to. but you don't want to let

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my ... my last final. Except that day they had cancelled my flight because

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  ="89674" image8="89699" /] After one class, my friend Charlotte W. '23 asked me ... 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  * Activities Periods Allan’s IAP I arrived with my parents to Berkeley, California on January 4th. For the first couple days we went exploring! For my ... entailed sleeping while my parents drove to the malls, and sleeping on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... read these blogs know what an integral is, but my mom, who also reads ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  ceremony my friend Pall posted something on my facebook wall HELL YEAH ... Downs It started on my personal blog with this, admittedly, super tooly entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  actually finish and through informally teaching my friends how to weld. I thought, I might as well formalize this. My friend Isabella is an ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  doesn't feel so abrasive anymore. Your friend recommended it to you as the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026