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  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... life was already full of far more interesting things, like watching paint

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My ... whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of ... nonprofit organization we don't have funding to supply these types of items
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever ... a steep rock face at the back of the temple. The rock face was full of ... scrapes and bruises from head to toe. Many of the younger monks signaled at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  spectacular at any time of day. Even though I’ve crossed and re-crossed the same ... creatively titled School Year Edition of this guide that shall be written at a ... end of the world and back, as long as your world ends at Alewife Station

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an ... . Look at it…go? After the display of Pioneer-era aircraft, they brought

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  physics." Most of the others have paragraphs, or at least a few sentences. I ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  at the College of William and Mary before swiftly transferring) so when ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  having something to come home to at the end of the day and someone to ... , but a lot of people would probably laugh at me for being so weaksauce ... ’ll remember Steven, who is terrible at drawing but still leaves notes of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat ... are at the top; bands marking the ends of DNA fragments of decreasing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... for a few hours and reconvened at 6pm for a tour of Chatelet-Les Halles ... Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... design at MIT: I've said this before, but the pursuit of free food is a ... As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... , though, because there was a wide range of skill levels, and everyone at the ... at the end when trying to stitch it together, the sense of achievement

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons) and definitely does not look suspicious at all. So let's open it up and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... undergraduates at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, was first used ... City of Boston and MIT, because, seriously, look at these freaking things

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  course, just a sampling of the 60+ performing arts groups at MIT. There are ... Remarks and Variety Show Saturday, April 9, 2011 6:00-7:30pm (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill and the MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  just two hours earlier above): The theme of the Hunt appears to be -- at ... 9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the ... about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  student center enjoying a matinee of the Musical Theatre Guild's production of Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition. Of course, since the production ... kissed my sister" joke, the random operatic soprano belting "Phantom of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005