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• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... ... How did you get interested in science? Both of my parents are architects ... for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  , she simply probes deeper in her questions and gets us to think like a ... with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the ... historian, but she is not jealous of her art. In fact, she seeks to instill in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to ... You (our signature song) to me in my boxers. It was amazing. Toons is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  how much things should cost, but I still get surprises from time to time ... have to literally shift clocks in order to get sunrises and sunsets at ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... everything that you've already told us in the application. If we did, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  graduate school and get my Ph.D. in astronomy. I sent a very happy e-mail to ... Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  went on to ask how they had felt the teaching of Physics has changed in ... meditative to get the soil in your hands and I like that a lot,” Peter said ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  in touch with a lot of the folks I used to talk to back then to get ... narrative. In past documentaries, I never really understood how to transition ... had in mind, but had no idea how to write this down into words. For the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  like? How would it have felt to get to watch my friends in the Class of ... section to help remember how novel COVID-19 felt compared to the domestic ... my words. The only way to know what it was like to get kicked out of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  auditions. I was a musician in high school, so I’m accustomed to performance ... have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... I have made the right decision. I am to be one of three girls in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater ... volunteer learned that he or she was to role-play as the Director of FEMA in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... let this forever put to rest the notion that MIT doesn't know how to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  how many times you think you are going to visit MIT. In general, the ... '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... required of all Course VIers, but it's going to be phased out in the next few

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007