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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why ... President L. Rafael Reif. One Community: Together in Service. This theme

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... faculty involved in the program were also invited. We enjoyed a 3 course

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... quirky little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (in my friend's words, "it has ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Signing in from sunny foggy and snowy and icy and rainy Greenbelt ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... , really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a ... equation, not to mention slightly more German. I was awash in sleepiness ... interest in opera, I give up. As I emerged from the Kendall subway station

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  the ocean. In the summer, there are even more reasons to leave the MIT ... activities this summer (and let me know what I missed in the comments below ... . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating ... pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... Principle. A few blocks later, you're dodging taxis in Chinatown and on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in ... . Deadlines for this year's honors start in early 2006. And with the holiday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  wrote when I shared that post on social media: "In Colorado, we only had farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all ... Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014