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• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... with each other and not inviting me or notifying me of what was going on ... friends that saw my breakdown tweets on my Twitter. I had a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened ... is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on ... period of time. More updates soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  taking selfies with stupid signs on campus. It was the night when four of ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  , in half hour blocks. On every day, Get Out of Bed is scheduled in for ... -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  !!! :')                                                                     Also^ a reflection on my current state of life. Less (or possibly more ... and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of all that is metaphorical, it's safe to say that I've updated you on my

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

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  for my phone from a box of free phone covers on the fourth floor ... amount of envy amongst the residents of other, less awesome dorms. On the ... -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech ... controversial issues because of the UA's dependence on administrative funding. I ... Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... . Last weekend, I made a little more headway on this goal by tackling Item #51: Eat at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at ... L mentors, they were able to solve an edX issue on the very first day of the ... award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  fit in so well in any of the above on violin (well, maybe Marching Band ... -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on ... a dank bread mold on the underside of a loaf hidden at the back of the ... importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  focus on the other parts of it! I think a lot of people, and sometimes ... I'm kind of iffy on, seeing as it's really hard for me to pick up new ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005