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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... CL, who had sped ahead of us to the summit, and began our descent ... yelling "Hola!" instead of "Adios!" Oh, well. After some to-do and a heroic

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

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  come from some exotic particle. The trick is to find a LOT of those events to accumulate a more solid bed of evidence that said particle was ... in the center of the room, it was easy for us to watch people file in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  software, particularly websites. It's trying to cover a lot of ground and is ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam ... slightly more flexible version of the Course 7 curriculum, and is designed to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this ... instead of a trunk with roots, so then I decided to turn it into a volcano ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... former Secretary of the Air Force. Previous guests have interesting ... Ross) * All of Me (Diana Ross) * Our Love Is Here to Stay (Diana Ross

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student ... ’s within a centimeter of the solder gun; it’s easy to hold the solder wire

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to ... the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job ... on-field after a cardiac arrest. i’ve always been the kind of person to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  surprise (forcing us to contact our liaison with Friesens, our publisher, to ... night to re-Photoshop entire sections of the book after realizing that ... reason, decides to take on, even if it means losing a few hours of sleep

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  revolutionary force doing just that.   Class of 2018, I invite you to open up to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... .   Because, people are the root of all of the challenges we aim to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  version of the Google Translate app, and you’re good to go. Of course ... lodging to a foreign country of your choice. That sounds like a win ... team of business and engineering students to create an incubator program

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

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

  

  that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  /self study, I began to realize that I needed something for me, outside of ... paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist ... part of your life, you’re an artist.” A few of them urged me to consider

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... collaborative filtering, a term used to describe a class of recommender systems ... month. I am so grateful for all of this.   I'd like to think MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... soaking up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of ... up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  to Wikipedia has "the highest magnetic strength of any element." Ah ... purpose of this story I need you to imagine that: -- My address was 4 ... MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some ... admissions in general. I had actually committed to Cornell, I had done all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018