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• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  to participate in it — and that doing so would make participating in ... read the old blogs, the ones before my time (even those written by people ... Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... ;     an original musical by Erick '17     ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office ... was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... ,000 Kwache each, which comes out to roughly $3.75). It was incredibly sunny

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  verge of making a purchase that will someday cause your roommate to leave ... pixels, I'm still unconvinced. By then, I was ready to call it a day ... Chinatown. Somebody wanted to stop by the drugstore, so Ben and I went along

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My ... life built to be seen by others—that’s not what I want. My friends often ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  champion our cause, and to make changes in the department based on our ... each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  account of my entire summer, but I have to stop to thank the people around me right now for making me feel human again. I wasn't expecting it to ... best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  , Technology, and Society (STS) Program. And by the way, if I had to choose a ... One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one ... would encourage any reseacher to make an effort to attend colloquia ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  whether to attend or not by May 1st. Not admitted means that, unfortunately ... (really, only send in one-ish, and make sure it contributes something NEW to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  doesn't want to make a transfer directly into my US account, because they ... -yet-unplanned life after graduation. Decide to make a meeting with my UROP professor ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  , and full of vigor, began to climb. However, soon he was defeated by the ... I just wanted to say that please don't give up hope, and I know that each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  leaving to “go sign checks or something” (he makes us laugh at 9am, which is ... importance of your work to your local district. Make it a two ... . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  to make it almost impossible to succeed. Yet despite their situation ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... players had to their characters. A lot of D&D is determined by rolling ... character narrative. I was so impressed by the attention to detail of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... aspect of it worked or didn't work. And the ability to make unique

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  in part by Staples. If anyone makes a particulalry great product, there ... understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012