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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  , I worked on the end stages of some art installations in Boston. For ... single company for such an extended period of time, and something I had ... and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  , reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I ... ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire ... running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both ... tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  -café, visit an exhibit in the Saga Museum, and enjoy a gourmet (by which i mean ... for the first time in many months. My only regret about the trip is that ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you ... to Alex H. ‘19, for being an all around fantastic person   ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  as both an 85 and a 100 are considered A+), so should i send in my ... transcripts< i got two 100/100s in maths and science, but both an 82 and 100 are ... about it, find a way to drop the hint in an essay: "When I visited XXXXXX

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague ... Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  through applications, an idea slowly started forming in my head. Well, more ... came from a particular student who started an email list for her ... work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022