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• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... 's really not a problem, which I'll explain in a second. By now, you've heard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  . As always, I promise to let you know as soon as I can -- hopefully soon ... event this Thursday at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. I hope you'll be there! If you didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  couple days later, I'll post the solution. Maybe you can join our team ... course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily ... enough, i can say whatever i want to. amongus skibidi toilet. haha

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a peace sign, but, and I quote, "as an otaku, that can only be 'V for ... in California than Boston in the EST. So I'm not really being fair in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  -R: Jeanne, Jeanne's prefrosh) Which in turn really makes me wish I'd visited ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived ... roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More on that later. I looked this up in Wikipedia and turns out, St. George ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the newspaper or the watch the news as often as I should, but that's why I am glad

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the ... Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley ... , furthermore, I strongly believe that there is wasabi powder in my eye. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... in mind, there are adventurous ice cream flavors that I feel do work ... , people waited over an hour in line; now that's dedication. I did wait in

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely ... bookworm who absolutely loved Medieval High Fantasy. In the last two years I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... about yourself: I can wiggle my ears but I can't whistle (you just got two ... Office. I also love getting discounts as an MIT affiliate at the Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software Construction) this semester, which if you remember, I described as a "notoriously ... Saman" Which in turn resulted in the following i'm-so-relieved-and-in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  skyline, the trip feels routine, normal. I can walk out in my slippers and ... that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  little darker than my avatar's and when I smile in real life, my face looks like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... stipend."]pays[/annotation]a lot better too). But I’m still here, in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022