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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college ... the student bloggers. These weblogs are here to begin to capture for you ... Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to ... students to “shoot for the top.” For many nothing would satisfy them more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  implement them as modules for Microsoft's open-source privacy toolkit. At the ... for externships. Back in September, the MIT Externship Program opened ... . IAP was great having time for weekday dinners away from MIT. During the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party ... cooking techniques and admonishing you for not using the "GOOD olive oil" or ... . No, not really. Anyway, we decided to head over at 1:00 PM for the 4

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  -teen looked like until I saw them navigating the cooridors and poking around ... to New England geography...) to Cape Cod. We drove to Wellfleet for the ... the Snow Goose Gift Shop to ask for directions, but ended up talking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... of action, I don't really have the self-discipline for it. When I try ... :bring fears out into the open, see them for what they really are, and make peace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  the Chinese fishing village he hasn’t seen in thirty years. “It looks ... talk about. The sidewalk is level for a while. And then it leads down ... horizon. It looks as if someone traced them out with chalk. In the distance

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  'm a loud, outspoken individual. For the most part at MIT, my character ... death for them, but I find we're not quite on the same wavelength. This ... weeks have been hell for me. I sat in the office surrounded by people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  letters. Big Exhale. Studying for the GRE??? We studied A Lot for the SAT ... one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  deserve to take some of that blame for being far too defensive. For the ... : he said I could skip the technical question and opt for a design ... . For the past two weeks, I had been prepping for a coding question, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  MIT for the rest of my high school career because I so desperately ... friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I ... the classroom. It read "I am large. I contain multitudes." Every lesson

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  interviews for both labs over the next week. Before IAP was out, I had two UROP ... get fried? Ellen and the postdoc both looked at the machine, hazarded a ... we rowed out to the buoys, pulled up the traps I hadn't seen for weeks

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  'll just apologize for being derelict in my blogging over the past few months ... was almost auditioning for The Amazing Race 12. Oh man, I just checked ... stuck going to auditions for the star-free season 12. My local CBS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  paving the way for the signing of the Declaration of Independence months ... , the giant undergrad dorm that looks like a sponge. That's because MIT ... used to make fun of Harvard for not grabbing the prime real estate on the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for ... Among Us, all in the name of "socializing" and "building community". For hall rush, Floor Pi ran virtual tea time and game night. For the Puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  EXPLOSIONSSSSS!!!" But man, the pin sure did look shiny. Very, very suddenly, it ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  question-answer: Thats all, thanks for looking. -lulu UPDATE! A video of ... the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of the talk was, "Rights and Responsibilities: The University Connection

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  freshman year we had 4 (again, not counting the days we got off for ... Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Lobby 7 for the Hunt Kickoff: Our team Captain, Keith '02, holds up the ... at the kickoff, including Bryan, who's playing for team Too Much Clue ... for the occasion. More swanky formalwear... at left, Dan '03, a team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006