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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... Ruckus has given way to Billabong. Like a scruffy college graduate who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

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

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free Garbage concert. Well, first, you have to hear about my morning. I got to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports ... , field hockey, and all the other fall sports come back to campus to prepare ... ="aligncenter" width="442"] We had a team meeting to kickoff the start of preseason. Here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... server, so we headed over to our dorm and started decorating. We added

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  account of my entire summer, but I have to stop to thank the people around me right now for making me feel human again. I wasn't expecting it to ... best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy ... places I visited during my CPW, and I encourage you all to visit it as well ... to get involved with the radio station and have my very own show

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won't be returning to my beloved 254 suite in Burton-Conner, hanging out with ... times a day. I miss MIT dearly, but feel so lucky to've experienced even

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  This week has been mostly dedicated to lab and cooking, since that's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... the specific ways that I did them. It's the easiest section to write

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006