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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... cynical about the political activity of people my age by the time I came to ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... past few weeks? Could I have witnessed first-hand the hilarious jigs my ... really. So the moral of the story is: COME VISIT. Discover the various

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have ... to them as uncles, aunties, and cousins for the rest of this blog

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and ... cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol ... presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of ... enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a ... some thoughts on making this an enjoyable weekend. The first question I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for it. Enjoy! Shameless plug -- stop by the Meet the Bloggers event

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism ... that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  first week was needed to adjust to my new schedule and the loss of Pass ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  series of blog entries you have ever seen. To entice you, here are the topics of these entries: 1. a trip to the Lyric Stage Company with some ... grad students, a sixty-mile stretch of rural highway, and the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  the first bit of flea shampoo. And a flea collar and some "Revolution ... them (black one's a boy and the other's a girl), gotten the first of ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  the first floor of MacGregor. If you like to order food (and really ... hypothetical dorm room. First, the website for the Massachusetts Bay ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  into an Uber. It was my first time in an Uber, and the interior of this ... back to Killian. Underneath the tent, there were hundreds of first years ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film ... until Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (have you seen the teaser trailer yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of ... first half of MIT, we subscribed solely to the 'hate' variety of IHTFP ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of ... that. Of course, all of the aforementioned makes blogger selection super ... feeling great about the successful applicants and miserable about all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  evidence has convinced some of Obama's nerdier fans that he'll be the first ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008