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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough ... never really done anything with snow beyond stare at it and flee from it ... what happened. I had my first adventure with snow, and it was awesome

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  different, albeit with a non-empty intersection, and there are many who fit in ... the EC knows that—and be forthcoming with a coherent explanation as to ... we can still learn a lot from the interview. And you should be ready to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  don't usually look at a bleeding hand and go like, "Oh my God, this is ... 're looking for a testament to how awesome rats can be, here are some rats ... a day or so celebrating with my sister and the rest of my family, who

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own ... book with the note “For Yuliya.” It’s beautiful.   With a precious ... Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... a "dead fold". And as if this is not enough, Parafilm can be stretched ... because my friend Ariel '09 is writing a paper for Colossal Failures in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... , maybe forty, scruffy-looking, sat near us and mumbled something—a greeting ... knives. I listen for footsteps and try to make my own gait a little less

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  path I really wanted to follow. So I switched to course 2A with 15 (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  bloggers are home, with some recently graduated, or have just begun work and ... antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  ...eerie and strange and still weird for me. I feel like a fake, in a way, with ... 'm writing a bit too casually and uncensored and I'll probably get backlash for ... joined it for the people. I went back and forth a lot between my decision

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  my dual identities as both a critical thinker and a creative-type. On ... Chimneys for two and a half hours, I had a pset due the next day, I couldn’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  housing lottery, it's a good idea to pack a suitcase with about a week ... room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I ... . Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  . Too eh. Experiment #3: A block and an inclined plane I think we all ... project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation ... question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowball for the head, Dan and Marie came up with an ingenious idea. There ... skates, and a team of friendly tourists. My friend Julia '08 shares her IAP ... snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  year MIT students. 3) I've been thinking for awhile that it would be ... , leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  the camera to "night vision" for a evening shot, with the characters ... release. As a whole, we left New York feeling inspired, and May left with a ... over and you get showered with psets and tests and remember why you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... about the Paris subway system, do a little research, and come up with some ... for a few hours and reconvened at 6pm for a tour of Chatelet-Les Halles

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  escaped relatively unscathed, just a few scattered tree limbs here and there. The house was without electricity and running water for quite a while ... anything. They took me out for dinner and ice cream every day, a welcome

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008