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• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... -ray facility at Mount Auburn Hospital. Junior year: the incident on the New ... were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with ... sweetest place on Earth--and having taken the Chocolate World tour ride

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  ’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the ... the light or the dust settling on that old mattress down to the molecule ... fail to focus on the Big Dome first—the blatant symbol of all the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... moments forever preserved from the exact second they happened. So if you ... ... and then got half the chapter to start sending me lobsters, after they

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much ... GOOSE SH!T. And I still had an earbud to find, somewhere on the GROUND ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  theme of this next piece from second grade: Behind the Couch I like to go ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... to be a better teacher. I will relate life to teaching to help the kids

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  ) (+Dohyun)”. While Andi seemed to be diligently take notes on the panel ... to fold. He took pity on the losers and tossed us extra chips to keep ... instead of trying to put it into our lab on the 7th floor. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  Mathcamp actually beats Disney as the most magical place on Earth. With a ... to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the ... , directs the train to a different rail, which happens to have one person on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... good time laughing at it. It began something like: This was the second

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point, gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked ... 's when I need to charge up. 2) Someone spilled water on my laptop. Yikes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... for the second time (im on Amber Spyglass), and its definitely by far ... students are expected to spend in class each week; the second number (0) is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the ... on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  probably lead you to a Wikipedia article. Depending on the subject, you might ... resources that you, as a person reading this on the Internet, have access to ... techniques for solving problems that I often found I needed to refer to on the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  the American styles, which come from mostly African-American origins. On ... highly recommends taking a look at it when it comes out. The second aspect ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to work, and the main reason I found myself on said bus was because there

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table ... powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011