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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  . Long ago I spent a year at MIT (my “junior year abroad” in Boston) so I thought I knew how the place worked (not quite, Dad!). Our family has a comprehensive medical plan that I buy through my employer, who negotiates with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• 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 ... .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... their final album, Made in Heaven, which I own. I own pretty much all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play ... thing in the world? I leave this as an exercise for the reader. I can ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  day, and all I can say is it's kind of crazy how I am literally alone in ... think it speaks for itself, I can't begin to describe how glorious this ... RSVP deadline, but alas, I can't really blame them, I might have been in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... - like when I want to go injure myself playing Frisbee in NH - that having

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... Institute. In the meantime, I'm polishing up a nice spot on my hand, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ='Alan: you can read about CJ’s experience writing in this absolutely ridiculous ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... my favorite poems (if not my favorite) is “anyone lived in a pretty how

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  get a B- in 8.01. I have no clue how that happened; I am guessing that ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of failing. I had done ok in the semester, failing or barely passing most tests

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  -campus and away from a computer so that I couldn't sit in my room refreshing ... finally, two days ago, I took a break from packing (how did I accumulate so much stuff? HOW?) and went hiking in the White Mountains, a ~2h45m drive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... largest outdoor market in Africa. You can find virtually anything there ... sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  rancher. This distresses me. I own no cattle.) Tucked away in the American ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game ... because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019