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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  we kept stopping on the way to reflect on the beautiful view of Japan ... - so we didn't get to see the eclipse, either. But the view on the way ... climbed with, and the view on the way down was really something else. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  towards home plate and asks you to describe the acceleration of one point on ... So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... though I was traveling with one of the directors from work. He was a good ... projects. And here I am on a plane. I haven’t been back to New York since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... really fast and dodging all the punches that the '08 through, and as a ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class of 30? 40? When I visit MIT and sit in on a similar math class ... receive the same lecture from two more male classmates on their awareness of ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  and singing on i feel this version of the fear of missing out. like, we ... , come on) So this is it? I sold my soul for this? Washed my hands of that ... out, just to make myself look good in college apps. but in the sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  goes to a student who lives on the east stide of campus, and the fund is ... the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... . (graphics/layout). I decided it would be a good time to start making (or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  that lots of people work on researching, but my point is, it’s not as ... dirt and plants and bugs and debris that lives/rests on the bank of the ... on how big the rainstorm was. Even by the standards of people living in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... . This gave me a final score of 220. Based on their point allocations, MIT ... most people would probably rely on data. MIT's calculation of 90% of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  lot of weight on having a good salary. As someone who used to worry ... physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an experiment, where they could choose to take three of these on Pass/No Record

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  article useful to all of you as you embark on college apps/scholarship apps ... matter how well-prepared they think they are. And of course the new grad ... personally; (4) able to take on the challenges of grad school; (5) able to have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of ... effective as ECs on behalf of the Admissions Office and of course, the ... their alumni/ae volunteers the same way we do but I’m proud of our program

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... itself represents a new kind of hack. ... part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  have registered, you will have a host. (More on this soon) Speaking of ... " (Stanford South?) preview weekend on the most recent episode of Veronica Mars ... conference on spam. A nice review of the MIT Museum... ...and a review of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  thermodynamics[/annotation] because it is one of three (3!) midterms I have on ... reality, everything will be done on time and at the end of the week I won ... state of frenzy, this is a state of unfounded clarity--on my emotions, on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  allowed them to make a tremendous amount of noise from above on Tetazoo (3E ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus ... the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022