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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew ... (to go visit some hiking trails out of town). Quebec City was actually ... one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  text of every blog entry every written. I like to think of it as ... Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  Square, raining confetti and showers of fireworks come to mind. I wasn ... : [email protected]. Regardless of sentiments, there’s a whole lot to look forward to this year, and a small chance for reflection. This, of course

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in ... important to me, as well, to be able to share and bond through stories of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later ... showed precocious signs of a furious ambition to eat everything ever ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  my high school and had lunch with one of my teachers, who happens to be ... single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home. Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch ... , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of ... now -- thanks to the power of the Internet! -- I can answer. "Do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  dollars into this pipeline. They hoped to begin construction of the pipeline ... glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... -- exploitation of this finite resource is dirtying our planet. I'm about to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  to hear as high school seniors. So, here is a part 2 post, kind of ... -production. These stages all have various aspects to them that require a wide range of ... we wanted to learn after seeing youtube clips of the storyboards

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  are wonderful resources, but it’s still hard to recoup after weeks of ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT ... Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... , a school reputed to have plenty of geeks to spare. Ankur, an alumnus ... of MIT one semester short of graduation to pursue acting. Based on his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... should also click the links. If you want to see more of YQ’s paper art, you ... school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  associating myself with something I don't feel that connected to. I know both of ... addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... the best pieces of advice someone had given her was to take classes in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... of the Institute, tucked tightly into an unlit cannon about to launch ... dominating context of my tiny dorm room to provide mental contrast. An

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... faculty approached the Dean of Science Bob Birgeneau to express their ... to as Report from here on). It showed that women held only 8% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017