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• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our ... importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... all!) fully enjoying the anonymity of the Internet as I subtly brainwash

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  also enter. Entries will be accepted now through the first day of ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha opened with a stomp. At first, I think all the prefrosh were stunned

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year ... past year consisted of things much bigger and better than the story of my ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... their lives. They were quite happy with the dedication of the coaches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the accordion, my uncle plays the clarinet, my first cousin plays the piano (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... ; The effort spans the early phases of product development, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  - it's an awesome collection of clarifications & advice for first ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to ... & stories from CPW. In the meantime, some random stuff in no

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  Furnished Lounge) is the giant gathering space on the first floor of Next ... I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... into a snowbank while taking pictures under the yellow cast of the street

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  year, the first being this past IAP; I described it at the end of this ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday ... of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006