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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  stops along the way to see waterfalls and to catch our first glimpse of ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... the inspiration of that human spirit of exploration the insatiable curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... windows of 5th West: Oh, the holiday spirit. This one may require a bit of ... radio first. Then sleep. I leave you with a picture of A-Control of WMBR

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now ... admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the ... the vast majority of excellent, qualified, well-matched students who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  students of Costa Rica's first science camp. The most hardworking and ... swim. My thoughts of giving started with the first hour of the 17 hour ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  lifetime would not be enough to serve the whole region of Kafa, and worse ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... growing up, but not one of them had ever been beautiful. Like the Aesop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  in the picture, for a variety of reasons. First, the building in the ... and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  of the whole building, inlacing the dining hall, is very sterile. The ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  brother is way taller than I am. I spent the first few days of Spring Break ... This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  my first leaving poem. and the scent of that oddly specific humidity. i ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  the world's firsts . This past weekend, MIT dived into yet another: the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the ... bags underneath their eyes for quite some time now. Saturday (the day of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... to go sailing for the first time ever :) MIT Sailing has various days

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  the world. In the first Burchard lecture of the 2009 Burchard Scholars ... -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010