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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  considered. I have to get back to my readings, but hello from Detroit, and ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18.03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  class gets to build their own; the 2013s were feeling pretty funky and we ... So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much ... insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I ... So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :) ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... 'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  you get when you cross the Flintstones with Public Transportation ... another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... restauarant Mitra introduced me to. There, they'd be talking about the new

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... . I feel like if I keep practicing, I could get to the point where I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  Power tools East Campus brings to mind rollercoasters and huge ... and they looked ready to start the next layer. The plans say it would be ... days. Part of me wanted to help, but part of me was scared. Sure, they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  to give some thought to how people are going to get into and out of ... us and demanded from the get-go lifelike, well-styled people...and to ... , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... our contact (who was supposed to give us directions on getting to our ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... figure out what questions to ask, get the answers, and find a solution ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get ... starting to get worn out. But yes love the MSA fam IHTFP Part One: I got

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of ... to provide her own answer). Sara Campbell asked "It's cool that MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  get you in. "Another issue is related to interviewing in India.Here in ... truly beautiful places. It's hard to get much more "collegiate" than ... the #1 "Toughest To Get Into." But I don't even know what that means

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005