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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... Mountains, we spent every New Years outside by a 64 square foot bonfire ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  kelly's: You might be upset by the fact that there are 4x4's running ... it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let me climb all over his bedding and his pillows to take the following

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  had such a high fever I couldn't make it back from campus to my dorm. So ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  inspired by Abby’s last post and am going to conclude this blog with a photo ... I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  Ann Curry is my idol. This NBC reporter is somehow able to balance an ... the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... so well within a career that is still considered to be male

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... blogger's raw stats from Spotify and the poster will make some comments about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  fresh ozone, rip the bond in half to make two new double bonds, stick an ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... the senior thesis Mike Short '05 had to write to get his BS in Course 22 ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  involved with organic reactions. 9.01: Intro to Neuroscience Taught by ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... up with excitement about class, but by now I know the drill so I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  had to be screened by three different people when I went to check in for ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my fellow adMITs. my daily routine consisted of waking up, making a matcha

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by ... , though not by much.  Despite this litany of grievances, I am grateful to ... not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022