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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the ... moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  engineers spoke English, but by the end of the summer she was working with two ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the ... So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  aggressively by my predecessor and is now an integral part of my vocabulary ... [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  by recent graduates/interviewers Ed and Jen, both of whom are off to ... the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... classrooms around the building. It was pretty busy for the duration of the two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  savings of about $15 and a tree or two that I achieved by using a refillable ... couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first ... summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  of my life. I am extremely touched by anyone who takes the time to read ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike ... Pelosi, and by the door, an aerial picture of Boston and the Charles, MIT ... pastel-colored ties flash by. The café is full of handshakes and sandwiches

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  few years of her undergraduate experience were defined by a pandemic. I ... espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  orchard on recommendation by one of the employees. I skipped ahead and ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... completing a single round. Instead, I watched the trees whisk by as I defended

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  made by dozens and dozens of people before me in a way it reminds me of ... need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  , and by my senior year of high school I understood that there were more ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... seduced by the synthesized flourishes, sparkling trills. It has been many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  pelted in the back by some of my freshmen :D So Halloween was a lot of fun ... of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was ... weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence ... ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  forecasted low of 18. But thankfully by the time we hiked up to the crag in ... definition of ice climbing, I don't know it. But a layman's definition might be ... and an assortment of other tools, just like climbing makes use of your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around ... gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006