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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  pronoun, as if it’s been said so many times that we found a need to shorten ... valuable, to someone valuable. A similar pattern is with English “dear”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  unnerving. I went to a presentation yesterday. It was meant to shock CEOs ... forests?   It’s hard to go back home without feeling a certain anxiety. The ... Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... to a liberal arts college to study history, politics, and international relations, but couldn’t really pass up going to a school like MIT and still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus ... environment that the fungus and the alga came together to become lichen. 4. A ... — Spruce bark beetles are native to Alaskan forests, and have maintained a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Massachusetts. The journey would be 30 miles. We walked to a trail. We ... the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... . Plus food after walking a lot is god's greatest gift to man. There was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... well as to the dorm as a whole. East Campus residents weren’t always ... a statement with this, so one day, if you went up to 5E you'd see tens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... don't talk to my old roommates a lot. when i enter McCormick, i still

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also requested for financial assistance. both were approved. it was a relief to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to ... fortunate that MIT has the financial resources to be a need blind institution ... . I wish there were ways that our society could find a way to enable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... .022 test!” Not one to back down from a challenge, I enthusiastically insist ... say that I have a plan to make sure that I will be Perfectly Fine in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any ... feeling okay, I said. We scheduled our next appointment to happen after a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut ... sort. But if you're going to Portland for a day, forget all that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005