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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... is only a twenty-minute endeavor. Ah, Paris. Pretty typical

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Quer, a beautiful modern cathedral called El Santuari de Meritxell, and ... ![/caption] Here is a video of the tradition of the Tió de Nadal. I really recommend ... question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had ... questions that require more than a quick Google search to answer correctly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  ). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation, you'll still be able to RSVP (details forthcoming). Each year, a ... , Northern Virginia, Montgomery County (MD), Wilmington (DE), Greensboro

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... at least) Friday: 5:00 pm - helped my friend 1 finish a sudoku puzzle

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... 've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of Cambridge was hosting a city-wide dance party in the street, and so we decided

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  , with a delay really only to get the plane de-iced (nice work Jet ... Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve wracking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan ... starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of ... Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  hopefully, a lot of joie de vivre - to complete these with. They're things ... if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It ... MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  : Spain Has the Bluest Skies [Catedral de Segovia] There are a lot of ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though ... middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts ... in biomedical engineering. A former finalist in the Intel Talent Search

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  at the entrance by Germain Louvet, a “star dancer” of the Opéra de ... . La Grande Arche of la Défense, a modern mirror of the Arc de Triomphe ... Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  ..." - this is not a poem, but it is a quote from Martha Graham to Agnes De ... my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  listening to reggaeton and watching La Casa de Papel on Netflix, it was also a ... Ciudad de México for Dia de los Muertos was not a real tradition at the ... in la Ciudad de México (right).[/caption] It's been such a good

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving pictures. Here are some headlines:   Thomas DeFrantz and the Dancing Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  little hotel called Hotel De Paris in Montreal. It was adorable. The ... every morning. We also found something quite spectacular. IT'S A CAT CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016