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• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Brothers Big Sisters of America and is being sponsored by Chi Phi fraternity ... Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  (the entire historic center of Pavia and this Vigoni cake is protected by ... , everyone seemed awed into silence by the unexpected grandeur of seeing the ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  by spoils, they mean a 3-D printed rendering of Charles Darwin looking ... one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... check and wandering around by foot, but now I dash out of Union Station ... ’ve passed by plenty of small, sparse towns—often condescendingly referred to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  Friday evening, after getting one of the more interesting emails of ... (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  of "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and it's a song that you could adapt ... fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... earthquake in Japan or election signs popping up outside of Kresge. The world consists of problem sets, papers, alarm clocks, and in my case, rowing

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of ... of being emotionally and even physically delayed..." And to think, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  eventually moved to the bathroom. By popular request of the suite, we did ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a yearlong effort, culminating in one joyful night of celebrating art and design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  The following entry was written by the very cool and talented Minh ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations ... qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... stand side-by-side, each one holding three or four floors. Each floor is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  wear. That has since been replaced by an assortment of sweatshirts, t ... neutrinos had surpassed the speed of light. But the best symbol by far? If ... whole bezel), two are by the end of its tail, and another two are toward

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  reproducible by the rickshaw factory. This also includes testing a variety of ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered ... for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011