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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ) Tuesday: Community service day - Made activity books for kinds at Children ... five teams, and the teams competed against each other for the title of ... a jar and you could either put pennies and dollar bills for positive

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like friends than colleagues. We spent many, many nights and weekends looking at ... respect for the process. I am particularly pleased with the diversity of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for ... for the art alone. Thursday was originally going to be exciting as

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  final-round onsite at a startup for a full day of interviews. I arrived on ... for a red-eye back to Boston, just in time for a German Vokabeltest at 9 ... two. We were in the same project group for DEECS, the former Course 6

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  at almost every event, and save room for a few flavors of liquid ... except the pony. For reasons unfathomable to me, MIT is stellar at ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  [annotation note="at least for me, maybe other people have better coping ... sitting at home with nothing to do for a couple of days was definitely a ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the perfect choice for my four years at MIT. Bring comfortable shoes and a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  superior culture for learning. These three branches are the colleges, which ... examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at ... arrange for me to have approximately 4 supervisions per class per term. The

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  guard at East Campus and Senior Haus for many years. He was very close to ... " with service projects and fellowship events. At MIT, among other achievements, it is responsible for the Book Exchange, the Ride Board, and the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  for lunch which is 1:30-2:30. i stayed back and ate stuff at home and ... 14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and some unknown

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  for $11,000 USD, the cost of a 3-day inpatient stay at the county ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During ... , interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at ... .... Our journey began, as most good journeys do, at the Student Center

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  picture for her) So tell me, how do you win at blackjack? Steve's math ... devil looked right back at him, and said "Why visit me - You've been ... about how this week was "hell week." (these things happen to everyone at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  me for coffee since she was at the AAS anyway, one drove down from ... with me about grad school for an hour. When we were chatting at the AAS ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013