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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  feel with the fact that we're almost right on the equator. Fortunately ... comforter. There's a beautiful woven tapestry on the wall, depicting two ... bed and left the room this morning, CL was reading on a couch just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... Building: 69 Chestnut Street, or pika from MIT CoLab on Vimeo. Video by ... the half-semester class I took on multimedia and place

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  January that I can work on during IAP: 1. Simplify and keep track of my ... on my phone that would earn me money for watching advertisements. But ... watched ads on and the surveys I took earned me a total of about two dollars

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  pie I found on the internet for all you visual learners out there. Two ... letting me use your beautiful masterpieces! After munching on cider donuts ... fallen, repeat step 1 on a different, hopefully more ticklish apple. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... looks good on the PDF preview, you are all set.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an ... on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  paceline through town on the wheels of Zack U. and Ben W. (both Chemical ... on that: the wind proved to be more of an enemy than the gradient. Jen ... yesterday, I was able to punch it a little bit more on the downhills. Kamal N

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  you doing at 8pm on Saturday Dec 8? Sam: Probably laundry. Me: Would you ... baffling. My face looked like this when, on Sunday, I walked into the ... (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14 ... semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  a surprisingly relevant fashion. ELL: Make a decision on what type of ... make the news section of that newspaper you pick up on campus look pretty ... . I still want to go to Japan, I’m definitely making sure I’m in on

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  . Last weekend, I made a little more headway on this goal by tackling Item #51: Eat ... .06 (Cell Biology). Meh. Not really that sure how it went. (2) On a happier

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... on the Wall Street trading floor after completing several demanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  serious. I jumped off the couch, threw on my running shoes and took to the ... 2012 As I read the remarks, I reflected on the truth that I found in his ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus, It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working ... find some neat thing happening that you join in on. Essentially... IAP is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... on the Internet, the now-mostly-defunct FictionAlley.org (though

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the ... , and gawked at a huge constructed green bug-like thing on stilts during

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  bag each morning, because having my Organic Chemistry textbook on me ... , MIT gives you a sink-or-swim style remedial course on study skills. In ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... Harvard Square. On Friday afternoon, I realized that this reunion was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011