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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B ... freshman year (and who has become one of my closest friends in the past year ... Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  remember not feeling as homesick as many of my friends freshman year, I was ... said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  went “ooh, new friends!” And snuck my way into their group under the ... weird as me and my friends back home, also rocking dyed hair and picking ... ="117854" /] I’m happy to be back at school now though! I missed all my friends and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my ... efficient work before my bed time. Lately, I've been spending at least half of that time watching Please Don't Destroy videos [+50 aura] because my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a friend that went a little something like this: Me: “Man, I really love

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon ... I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  ... But don’t worry; read this gchat convo I had with my friend -- Wendy ... - Ineedtobeliterallyandfigurativelypluggedin (typing without spaces is another idiosyncracy). My left [shift ... my architecture studio professor crazy. So I finally changed my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  , which was great. 9) I was skyping my friend Marianna (one of the lobster ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0.00 on my TechCash account. Do you realize how hard this is? This is like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  It was my freshman year, not long ago When I arrived at MIT, complete ... -bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  of my friends graduating, I get to take care of your heat strokes and I ... I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  sat down in the chair and felt my vision go a little fuzzy. The friendly ... TIME. Seconds later, my two best friends in the service strolled into the ... there I joked with my friends about not dropping the stretcher or screwing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  . Actually, a total of 18 of me and my friends ended up making the sojourn ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... assuage my curiousity, what is it about MIT that draws you personally? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  100 personalised Christmas cards to my friends every year. I publicised ... kept a private blog, my friends would respond and comment and it was a ... I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... are? I message my friend, “What is green the color of?” She promptly ... like this: So this is the famed Caltrain my friends with fancy Silicon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  some of my best friends (plus, I got to eat some of the most delicious ... should have been sleeping. 1) Honing my crepe-making skills. I recently ... campus, taking a break from the workload of MIT to hang out with friends

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023