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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were ... coaxing, I managed to wobble (screeching) down the sidewalk to a gyro cafe and back. Two days later, I managed to transport myself down a riverside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water ... to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on top. It brought me closer to God. Thanks, Ina. In an interesting bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  ’m three weeks into my third semester at MIT. I’m relieved to be dry; at the same time, I’m happy to be hosed again. I’m mildly stressed, mildly ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  . Summer program mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to ... version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  River. This excursion was arranged by a grad student (who happened to work ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... Dragon Boat team and were introduced to the sport. We spent some time on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  apartments and such. i dunno, back in the philippines being able to pay your ... pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  . There are many opportunities I will never be able to explore. There are so ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  parasites which could live in your eye Commensalism and you How to avoid being ... before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... ." Every time I re-read that, I wonder what possessed me to agree to do this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  tuned for more news--this is going to be an exciting summer :) Seattle ... 's like San Francisco, but not as cold--not to mention more hipster and ... entire city also looks like it's being continuously remodeled, since there

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  , and wants to learn to climb things. She sometimes eats three breakfasts ... to write fanfiction about me and m_quinn, but we hired him anyway ... folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11.027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  , money, and other resources to this cause! You must be sick of all of the ... yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC ... effective nonetheless. I want to see this movie now. *Nombre is actually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009