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• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony ... January? That tall man in the middle is none other than John Williams! He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.   ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I'm mostly excited

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  in dorms, classes, councils, and recitations all have unique mailing ... during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to ... '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall ... L '25 Nina L '24, Paula C '25, Lyne O '25, and I in issue 9 of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014