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• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... , helped me move one of my finals to the end of the summer. It was no fun to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it, focusing on both the overall winners and the performances of MIT runners. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  -word mess to make sense with what I am now working on. For the first few ... actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... knowing when to work and when to relax; another is the ability to "take care

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair ... the MIT Medical Reception on Friday morning, and the Activities Midway ... /Meet the Bloggers, be sure to wave! I'll be giving out free high-fives all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for ... for the art alone. Thursday was originally going to be exciting as

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  pretty often to print off...everything. This is the cluster found on the ... santizer dispensers next to the buttons of elevators on the first floor ... When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  students on a comparative urban studies program focused on understanding the ... program is focused on experiential learning and learning from the community ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Apple store on Boylston Street. Although the store's actually less than a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... , Stunes '11, and I headed to Harvard Square to go book-shopping and see The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two ... to be honest, it was because I live around the corner and had been

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have buckets and buckets of mail to open and process already -- and the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... there was some jumping as we spilled it out on the kitchen table. We were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos. a virgin door closeup on the flair featuring two years worth of door

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday ... Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  you respond to me, be sure to read the post by Dean Marilee Jones on the ... that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer ... room on that same floor. I saw 2 fellow pre-frosh for the 3rd time at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her ... . Charlie Brown would go on to have 46 TV specials over the next 58 years, and ... on its own), and the Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is my go-to for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... occurrence. So if the input to this function is a text file that contains: “hi ... doing this to the group chat we have with our friend Charlotte M. ‘20

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018