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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend's size 12 shoe. I ended up ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing ... ran for over 30 hours each week, I naively assumed that that was it and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony ... 's flair for enthusiastic performances. I'm not sure which group is pictured ... student groups and various departments set up attention-grabbing, food

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  over with, soak up the life lessons, and hope for a brighter future. At ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing ... . So I did. I went to extra recitation hours the next day. My back-up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend ... events leading up to the murder to Olga (Deirdre '10), his confidant and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... seem more than just a little strange to my New England peers. For example ... root for the Colts over the Patriots; and I love playing a little

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour ... Research Center, this seminar is shaping up to be really swell =) Not only do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  in all the train stations make up a personal itinerary for you listing ... , authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , it had only taken us 4 hours for Ling and I to get to Bao's apartment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  : Design and Manufacturing 1 12:30 - 2 pm: Tissue Engineering for Analysis ... Professor Slocum pick you up and run around Johnson Ice Arena with you over ... been Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and Tissues for the way it really

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... something, but lately Webmail has been running incredibly slowly for me, so I've taken to opening it up through computers in my lab via athena

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  attend office hours for classes where the problem sets are notorious for ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  , given that there are 12 MITbloggers and assuming no leap years? Sorry for ... worth it just for the holograms and strobe photography exhibit. I also ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  think it'll end up being a little more important than making yet another ... it "Xena." That's so cool. But I bet MIT would have come up with an even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  made my own program that signs up for PE classes for me? The most I had ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for ... , headaches and turbulence are the absolute worst, especially for someone who is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... , we are actually the cheapest option for MIT affiliated housing at $370 ... for most aspects of life at the house, including house government

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  up for details on the latter. 2) I have exhausted almost all AP courses ... very good, too. Can these "make up" for the lack of "outstanding" grades ... with it being brought up again and again, I think I should mention that

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... becomes cylindrical. Heat the glass back up (the marver cools it down a ... ”). Push down gently, blow the glass, and then stop and let it hang for about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  didn't end up applying to Columbia, as I was admitted to MIT early action ... accepted. With four other girls, I squeezed into a hotel room meant for two ... shift in priorities, but I found myself yearning for the familiar

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... the waitlist at the last one, enrolled, didn't like it, and ended up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes ... some photos from friends who were more brave than I was (click for larger ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom ... , Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... probably an understatement. We've been positively explosive for the past two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013