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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... just means “place” or “residence”. The poet in me still wants to relate ... ’s some good use of repetition in the parts I feel are most powerful. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen, and for the most part is what happens. Some, however, really want a ... between applications, the admission decisions tend not to change, and in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from ... here. To now! In those ten seasons, the show matures, where you can see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... like an artificial race to get the most experience you can as early as ... -time internship/work) this semester in the first place is because I felt like I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  to a temple, which was one of the most beautiful complexes I have ever ... few of the kids from came up to talk with me…they were all interested in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start ... the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  annoyingly mired in details and is reluctant to show you the big picture until ... go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... absolutely phenomenal in terms of the freedoms allotted to residents and has

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Everything is presented differently in college. Don’t fear to plunge into the ... , who wrote about it here. This is the best tool to plan your academic ... . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... was okay, but The Great Gatsby is basically the same book, only much ... not as difficult to read as most modernism, but it's the most sweltering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like ... ago, to falling in love with the second boyfriend, to falling out love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... palpable, and the best part is that I have the time to savor it. I have the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  homes in the fall. 1 thing that's for sure is that the original East ... .[/visually_hidden] credit: Teresa G. ‘23 two: party visuals in addition to the aforementioned ... live here, in glounge, at the loading docks.     Here is not just

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels ... 're not going to see the point in trying to recover it. You're going to be ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the ... first place, considering how much entropy he put in it.), Stamps, the kind

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first ... , the thing that they do most is rehearsal. my first few rehearsals were ... real thing". is there a real thing in the first place? am i so worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... .  [annotation note="The startup featured in this silly story is definitely not ... this lobby is pretty sliiick. Two glass walls frame the entrance to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021