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  awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple ... their reasons for visiting Boston, and it turns out the wife is running ... , where she plans on taking a short break so she can nurse her daughter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  closest subway stop to East Campus (and indeed, most of MIT); you can also ... to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  '08, who ran up to us and surprised us. I can sometimes be a paranoid ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  . For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found ... week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  (Checkpoint Chinghis) Tsagaannuur to Ulaan Baatar Now for what can only be ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  were fine doing it, you didn't need to stand up if you felt that it would ... later converted to Christianity. I can testify that Muslims are not bad or ... so down that I found it hard to even reach my friends. But they noticed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a ... excellence and progressive leadership. It's common for students to work on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  a whole MIT community that can’t wait to meet you. Congratulations and ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... passion for physics at MIT. He chose to study here at MIT, but that doesn ... musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... , let it be noted that Cambridge is about to celebrate it's 800th ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... driving through it—but the snow's presence was enough to bring me some well ... can make one's day in spite of it all. The snow is back! What joy.

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. I automatically said, “Heh… $3.14. Like pi.” The woman made a face. “PI?!” “Did you say PI?!” “I said it’s like pi,” I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... me falling asleep on the bus to retreat at noon. But even though it's an all nighter, I look forward to it, because all of my tasks are

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  walked across the border as a kid. I can speak slow Spanish to my ... actuality. To what extent are these experience valid? Is it part of my ... question in my voice. It feels wrong to identify with a people and language

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ." A cute story, no? Surprisingly, Levitt did not re-tell it to Stephen ... to Professor Levitt -- the "Economists do it with models" t-shirt. ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  keeps. I went back to Santa Fe, where it could be t-shirt weather with ... girls, and sleeplessness. I did my best. I'll do it for you, too. Write to ... middle of his brother's story, Jacques hooks him up to the little can of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... -slash-advisor-slash-aerospace-bigwig, Professor Drela, and used the MIT name to strongarm various companies into ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009