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  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  ="alignnone" width="225"] this is not what you want to see![/caption] We drove over to ... countryside is gorgeous at this time of year, with all of the rolling hills ... ![/caption] Our raft was helmed by the sweetest guide named Hannah, who is also the

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  Boston Harbor, I walked the esplanade not once or twice but three times. I ... Thief movie, in which the titular Percy is sitting with ease at the bottom ... the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... repeat in my head for a week already. As the song is less than two minutes ... in science and engineering. The ensuing discussion is really engaging

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in ... full of energy I could feel in the air but the gathering was not my cup of tea. What this gathering was for I do not know, well perhaps this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the ... from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty ... infinity, as expressed in mathematics and in poetry) and is one of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  to compute those invariants. The content is quite pretty but I did not ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... half of the semester, which is Quantum I, because I want to learn quantum

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  happening. And yet, that moment is embedded into my mind. It’s the first thing ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun is shining over the Boston skyline. The river moves with a gentleness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  is on par if not a little less expensive than living in a dorm ... : 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case)? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  is my start point because Saturday is the day of the week, out of all ... stressed as hell about everything I have to turn in. The week is very hazy at ... ) before I sleep. Friday Friday is the real day of freedom.  I don't even

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  yourself post-PNR, and the end feels really far away. Junior fall is ... fall is exhausting because the end is in sight and you're actively making ... ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities ... forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on ... small intestine. Maybe that's not good? Idk, w/e. This is very well what

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due ... ’m under 21. Welp. Everyone else I know is staying at the official hotel a 20

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... deliberation not to do something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the ... nerd...." The Brass Rat Even more hacks So, the question is open: With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  is for high achieving high school students from rural schools, the two ... .5 million grant from the Greater Texas Foundation, Project STEEM is geared to ... Technology and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area. At the school, which is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  entries' residents or chance, I am not sure, but the current staff is a bit ... has not been passed down to the current residents ... -rise now; this is the vertically stacked grouping of entries A, B, C, D, E as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad ... and discover that painting is really fun and relaxing. I work on the ... at pika and do more work on my pset. 12:42 a.m. My brain is not really

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... not know at the time but these are just Crispins. Fun fact: they ... undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I ... the same time, it's quite not the whole story, either. I think the real

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008