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• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote ... -made channel. Within a few years, the London Bridge became Arizona's second ... photos from the first stop on my trip -- London. Check back soon for the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  however I’ve reached the maximum time that I will have to ever get to know a ... kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , and own the material so we can use it to reach our greater goals. I wish ... on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  and listening to all the songs on repeat This was a masterpiece. The ... times during this month, and listened to all the songs on repeat. Our ... school, we stressed about not being qualified enough to get into the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  Association Committee on Student Life is proud to present MIT's second ... ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer. Take advantage of the wondrous opportunity to discover a different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks ... ’s molten hot, but you’ve still got to strike true. The second day of classes ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I ... discourse on the GIRs. Hope you find it useful. =D And to prove that I'm not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  see.The admissions office hosted workshops on how to balance academic ... place where we encourage drawing on the walls, my visiting student got to ... community. Having this time to get to know one of the students on a more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  just to take care of myself. even on the days when it's simply tough to ... I'm excited to see who I'll be on the other side. ... 'm still processing the  fall I've been working really hard to take care of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  just barely miss the commuter rail on my way home, adding another hour to ... on a gravel footpath between the station and my office. I have to get ... on the blogs to feel slightly [annotation note="i love being paid to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into ... taped to the side. Thanks to the educational value of countless Halloweens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... 's me," I said to the car. "This just isn't going to work out." I think

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass ... finals. The 8.01 was first on Monday. I had to find the best place to study ... the problem and focus; I would turn away from it to read something on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  bump on a force pad to unlock the gate. Pappalardo has essentially become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team ... students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  busy. That being said, I begin with two plugs: -- Check out the second ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  on the unloading weekends. I tried not to remember my beginning ... on my path in search for more repeating patterns. The solution to my ... easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018