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• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  , New Hampshire, that I visited as part of some pre-orientation program ... the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  lounge at MIT where a group of people are clustered watching a movie on TV ... throughout campus (we call them "Athena clusters" - based on the name of the ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  cancelled the New Haven meeting this year, and thus all of those folks would ... Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun ... developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  them to another room. Then on the first weekend of February, the weekend ... weekend of February was the ESP retreat, where we drove up to New Hampshire ... the hundreds of classes being taught for Spark. I had dinner on Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... (unbelievably) still used on fall travel recruitment well into the aughts. There

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  I'msoincrediblyexcitedyouhavenoidea! So basically, after 21 years of living on either the same street in New ... So Facebook has this interesting application that lets you display on your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so I think) Getting my first taste of Chipotle with the bloggers

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  can add a new page by clicking on the symbol boxed in dotted green, and ... toolbar) and click on one of your objects. Hold shift to select multiple ... on the eye symbol at the left side of the layers panel. Don't get

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the ... Harvard friends and I spent the Fourth of July on the Esplanade, a beautiful ... 'm working on a great UROP, I have plenty of fun projects to spend my spare

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative ... new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team ... wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  moving apparatus of Next House. Jen sat down on a [annotation note ... size of a foot. It was on this order of magnitude, probably, but my ... Furnished Lounge) is the giant gathering space on the first floor of Next

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of ... with the intention of posting them formally on this blog so some of them

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... College in Maryland in the fall. One Saturday morning on a small New ... . Alena Davidoff-Gore, a brand-new graduate of Baltimore City College High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t know I live in the #1 dorm on all of MIT campus #BURTONCONNERORDEATH ... potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case ... this link). Alright, I kind of got off on a tangent in that last

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015