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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... also stopped into O'Naturals, the nation's first organic fast food chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... this a bit more this IAP. I’ve liked the feeling of stretching my body

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... be wondering how the night of the ring delivery unfolded. It went

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... ,’ which means something completely different at MIT. The first birthday

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set ... DETERMINED to be hardk0re that he sings a song about it, to the chagrin of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... /sugar/salt solution (7.06). You won't absorb water without salt due to the structure of ... structure of the transporters in your intestine (7.06). 2. The reason you feel

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  first trimester grades, even if we already have them.) Please send us the ... 2 of the application, except that we're only looking for current ... ; Notes deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  -Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of the application, except that we're only ... deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the option " ... Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  ://tiny.cc/monstermashup 2. Don’t come wearing the sheet. At the first sound of an airhorn, put ... many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob ... time Halloween themed! Here's the gist of it: If years of Halloween

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  , more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... , guys...) After a few minutes, the number of flashes died down, and Bill ... . The last bit of the program was dedicated to Q&A. Ranjeetha '13 and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... . Once. And that pretty much constitutes the entirety of my previous

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... thinking.   It was in the process of doing so that I discovered my true

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the ... the sillier benefits, I think, of going through heartbreak is also being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  your phone and other necessary devices for the first couple of days ... what you are doing for food the first couple of weeks before semester ... things, so be on the look out for emails from the Office of the First Year

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... to create a rendition of TIM the Beaver for our signature class event ... monocle. For some reason, the quality of the photo got absolutely murdered

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  he doesn't like the arts - but the truth of the matter is that MIT students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008