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• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from Sweden was promising them chocolate if they would only get up and go up to ... songs exclusively about beards!" - but they didn't really seem to get it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

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

  Yay, weekend!

  

  debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby ... I could play with at my leisure. Can anyone PLEASE explain to me how ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of ... overwhelmed. The amount of time put in varies from semester to semester and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... 't know. This doesn't mean you're not totally awesome too! But if we get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be ... in nods to our fanbase--check out these background characters:    That ... , and Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski. In any case, I decided to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  to don costumes and wander around to all the MacGregor GRTs to get some ... wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus, became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... that you need to come in a rocket scientist, not at all. But you will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  like your dog answers your questions. Also your dog is harder to get ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can ... clean my office. However, to my credit, there are no strange smells in my ... a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this ... . During the dinner, Petey also mentioned (in response to my initial distaste ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• 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…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

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

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... friends if you wanted to, not the things you'd have to participate in if you want to have fun here. When I came to MIT in the fall, I met so many

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... later, I presented myself to my mother in shame, fully expecting to be ... at her in open confusion, which only served to intensify her mirth

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  are very close to my heart. Most recently, I was involved in an ... devious in staging an anonymous performance, (how do we call it art, if it ... ;Untitled." Now more than ever, the divide has formed in contemporary art: those

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  sure this is condoned. Just to get everybody in trouble, clockwise from ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... was great, students were tossing a frisbee, and music was blasting in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008