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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  all time, primarily because I was in New Hampshire this month on a bike ... my rights. I'm in New Hampshire." "Live free or die." "Live free or die ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... yet, this section [annotation note="in this section, moreso than anywhere else in my blogs, you will see my teaching background come through

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... learning about viruses and other types of infectious disease in 7 ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  year. So far, I have: Moved into my new dorm. Maseeh! I live in a ... , possibly bears. Horror movie? Nope, an awesome Energy Club retreat in New ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in ... in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Q: What is MIT INSPIRE

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  financial aid tracking. Daniel just posted an update in College Confidential: A new enhanced portlet will be launching in the next week to 10 days ... have submitted photoshopped Evie/Sawyer photos in the last entry. They

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... look at this in terms of chemical composition, probably 80% of my grocery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  , leaving Boston for a little weekend trip in New York or New Hampshire ... in new and old ways, and basically just living it up. Happy LFDOC to my ... requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 ... own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West ... a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... history. here they are! in chronological order of getting them: this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had ... professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for ... Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  transformed into an impromptu dance floor. That Friday, we performed in the famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id="attachment_88380" align="aligncenter" width="768"] How it went down in my head

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... am utterly in awe of everything he does. When I read Jonny Sun's name

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was ... met him last semester in 4.341…amazing). MIT might not strike you

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... granddaddy's yacht than we are by people who take 100 units in one term

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... months, which they started planning about a year ago after learning a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019