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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in ... , napped in the sunshine while flipping through a library book, awoke to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective ... found a tenor saxophone on Ebay, so Angela decided to get an accordion

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  got to meet Colin (MIT '10) whose application I read back in the fall ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  the skies in Malaysia. It was hard to see the Kuala Lumpur (KL) skyline, including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... Malaysia, it was off to Hong Kong. Here's me atop the Peak in Hong Kong, with

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

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face ... freaked out. Honestly, getting B in that class was just about as exciting

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... better. In the days and months to come, I would like us to find meaningful ... Equity Officer, to guide us in this effort. For now: I take hope in turning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... about how media and politics shape each other, but also to have a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we ... of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them ... discoveries. They linked to two great articles, one from Wired Magazine and the

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... with my friend who works in that office, however, who showed me the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think ... out of you to found another race. in the myths it's always unwillingly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... Florida standardized state exam we had to take, she taught us how to write ... trying to imitate. And yes, that is how you spell "reply." But at the same

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... ; Michael C. '16 was also in Wyoming, setting up his professional camera to ... animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... how to respond or won't be able to keep from tearing up. The follow-up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016