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• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  first part of my summer working for the Massachusetts State Science and ... ! WOOH!! *The first two images, courtesy of google image search* ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will ... past month and i once emailed the ceo of nike asking him to make the air

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... world, but this was my first time in the Middle East. During the course of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be totally honest, the major reason I was freaking out about the loss of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... have an attention span like that? Chris has blogged about some of them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... practice writing essays. My internship in the latter half of the summer also

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• 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 / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the ... Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language ... the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• 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 / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some pressing questions as the talk goes on... First, some CPW answers. I know ... .CPW Farewell: Saturday, 5pm (and probably Battle of the Bands, too). The head of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• 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 / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my humble opinion, the world is comprised of two types of students. Student

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 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