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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  with hiking or museum visits or at least some shopping. But this vacation ... IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship ... semester. After three and a half jam-packed years at MIT (including IAPs), I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there ... ’s structure, and case studies on real companies that look at the cultural ... , in October the class looked at BP and the summer’s oil disaster. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of ... operate. The Phoenix Group began doing research to investigate programs at

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove for the frisbee at a full sprint. I came up with the game-winning catch, but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  -haired megastar appearing at the MIT museum yesterday with almost as much advance ... , and discovered at 9:18 AM that I had a press ticket to a Polaroid press conference at the MIT Museum at 11:30 AM. The weather forecast registered sunny

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  terrifying journey also known as medical school admissions. Through my time at ... gist. ;) During the day, I intern at Bellevue Hospital, a fifteen ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  through the city at the latest we'd ever been out here - we've been making a ... of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even ... huddle around the one light bulb, or one candle, at one store on the corner

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  classmates. That’s what really showed me that I can see myself at MIT for the ... 7 at 11 PM on Friday. ¬∑ When I visited the headquarters of the ... table and potted plant, suspended upside down at the Media Lab entrance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in ... so t-shirts (though most of them were at least three sizes too big for me because I apparently fail at pushing my way to the front of the line

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  just get a new computer. I hope I at least get all my files (five ... what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... lounge at MIT where a group of people are clustered watching a movie on TV

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  my daily nonantics. Speaking of boring, I had a four-hour shift at ... way up at the top of this post.) Anyway, a long-ish time ago in a land ... behind. I've had a multitude of amazing opportunities at MIT, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  college with a definitive plan for their lives at an age where they're barely trusted with adult privileges and responsibilities. At the very ... at this school who are exceptional at everything they do: they get all

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as ... ) ride from Berkeley to Oakland, getting to work at 8.59. During lunch, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... drive from Boston to San Francisco. -At night, they light up the Niagara ... . -Eating at a Steak 'n Shake in Indiana as a minority is a lonely endeavor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  the sunset. And at night there was always something to do. Parties with ... a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC ... something. So she pulled him aside, at a house party I think, and said, "Do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  as much water as there is rice. 10. Place rice on stove at high heat ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... )). My 24-hour journey back to Taiwan begins at 9:30 AM and I'm heading off

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... boat. An obvious photo-opp for the "Sophomore Guys." We stared at ... then pointed right at Dorothy and yelled "Everybody off the dance floor

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  showering in the same bathroom at the same time 4) Nobody cares That's right ... dorm at MIT is single sex, all the rest are coed) and we get along ... a theme As you can see in that last picture, Dorothy is bad at

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  anything, anything at all in the store, without even knowing you were ... even growing a beard at that time, and yeah, we probably paid more for ... your suffering friends at other schools. And so one weekend Kes '11

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009