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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American ... . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  .01: Classical Mechanics. (Should I be linking to 8.01t or the 8.01 in lecture ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... have rented by the hour from Bike and Roll? I think not. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to give up going to discount Boston Celtics games. I'm not the greatest ... among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... been at the finish line and he was unable to locate them. He had seen his ... hospital in the Boston area until we were able to find them at two separate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company ... could be compared to the nervous system of the lander. We were in charge ... city for these 2.5 months of summer, to be one of the 14 million going

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... to pass the time, and you haven't read this already, check out this ... what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  connoisseurs we pretended to be. When the snacks were all gone, we'd return for ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... to the no pumpkin rule. I also think that might be because the samosa

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... DC have given me a good chance to explore the DMV area! Here's some things I've been up to:   Congressional Baseball Game The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... anything from the 80's Favorite books: Frog & Toad, Bridge to Terabithia, Where The Red Fern Grows, Ender's Game, To Kill A Mockingbird, Blindness

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all of IAP. I was going to rest and recuperate so that I could go into the ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first ... Jane (Angelina Jolie) are revealing to each other the lies they have told

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact ... over to the Stata Center to retrieve it (the ambulance lives in the ... bluejeans and a shirt, definitely not what the president of MIT would ever

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the ... checking out, if I don’t say so myself. I will point out that the podcast

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... ’d become more of what I wanted to be — not my senior year of high school

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3: Talk to people, prefrosh and current students alike. I think the best

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... armrest of my chair, with which I hoped to compute the difference between ... 'd like to thank the proud sponsors of Sesame Street for their generous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the bezel of ring. The Committee looked to the original discussion over the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  didn’t think that the refugee camps that we would be going to could be a ... to even be at this point. To even get to be in the shoes to say that ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... plan on eating at the dining halls a lot, but it would be helpful to know

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016