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• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien. For the past month, Conan's show has been ... feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  wild. It's B for Vendetta! A rather impressive sight in Lobby 10 ... part in the celebration! While those are all the photos I have for now ... foiled at the twelfth hour, the conspirators nonetheless secured a place in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  and pair them with eight beautiful women in a competition for $250 ... interested in catching up on some TV. This month, you can see (at least) three ... up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  giants--like, people over 6'6"--hit them over the head, and put them in his ... until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very ... all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... liked cooking, and it's actually really come in handy in college, since my dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that ... some 70s: P.S., thank you Costas for the 15-213 wakeup call. Two

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel ... "]Kalayaan,[/annotation] we bumped into each other Each with their own ambitions in life Under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom ... 'm pretty sure she was joking, for some reason the idea stuck with me. Over ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  example, when people asked me, oh, what are you looking for in an internship ... acme went mostly well, except for a small hiccup in the middle, and the onsite for widget went much better. in both onsites i got to talk to an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while ... In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  Crossing in Boston, and if you're looking for warm clothes there's Filene ... surfaces you sit behind, for both your writing pleasure and also in case of a ... lottery). You get temped in a dormitory, where you live for a week (or two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... , i thought i'd have much more time for personal growth. turns out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... waitlist for my gym class, so everything’s set! Scheduling classes this ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  served in a tiny carton for lunch. Eating at Maseeh was like eating at a ... nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to ... sure everything is in order. Our frat was holding a small barbecue for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer ... campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014