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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... with this little ditty, to the tune of Ed Helms's "Tyson's Tiger Song

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... is a Strange Place, a lecture given by MIT Physics Professor and Nobel ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  from two actual members of the MIT Class of 2010! Thanks for stopping by ... tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to ... powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  “deferred” a decade ago in favor of MIT. Guided by a gut feeling, I ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... life. The film is oriented around this theme, demonstrated by the three

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and ... anniversary tour and two Christmas concerts of questionable quality by a ... Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  questions by importance, is the necessity of gradation. If you rank everything ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all ... organized by suites of 4-12 people, each with its own kitchen and bathroom ... I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Tuesday brought a party at the Stata center hosted by several of MIT ... ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  ) -- Planned by Bryan and company and headlined by Ben, what kind of blogger ... that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By ... things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  ,[/annotation]my hobby of drawing didn't. I joined window painting, started sketching ... [annotation note="which will thankfully never be read by anyone"]started a Wix book ... stories of younger me, they almost always tell me they’re surprised I ended

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023