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• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a ... 't get the hamburger, because I didn't pay for it. B: I should get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in ... libretti for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff operas, as well as for Amilcare

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• 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 ... another pic soon for you guys to try to figure out, that was fun. Now the

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

  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another ... discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... they're called that). For the next month, the admissions staff will be ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... women for some reason and said that it was only for students. [-200 aura] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... for Mechanical Engineers This class has 1 hour lectures every Monday and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... Hall Plaza, but I made it for the main rally. There were some amazing ... representative for just ten minutes, all just felt so incredibly unimportant

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives ... done around the world, and to promote role models for younger people ... -violence, creativity, courage, and responsibility for one’s actions. The award will go to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  the right students who could be great candidates for our institutions ... process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For ... . For the last several weeks, we've now been doing the same. Every day

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for ... . The same goes for materials submitted by your teachers, counselor, and ... 1. We will wait for your materials. We are not going to be mean to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  I don't much care for this nickname, lol...). I have three suitemates ... -profile vaccines like Gardasil (for HPV) and Zostavax (for shingles) has been both humbling and amazing. I found out that it takes 20 years, on average, for a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Verdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie ... and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them ... as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  , humans, and pigs, but it has been more widespread than H1N1 for the past ... got vaccinated! For free! Every year, MIT administers the seasonal flu shots for free to students, employees, and dependents. Last month’s clinic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011