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• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad flights - zero leg room, back row seating with the constant smell of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  ordered 4 of these, expect epic rock band pics to come Along with the new ... album describes it as, "the epic snowman of IAP." It was originally James ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the ... anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... complexity of patterns and the neck-breaking speed that some people crocheted

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move ... Solution: Just make your own kitchen? I woke up to the noise of Raymond

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... . They've also been installing new Ethernet jacks in all of the rooms -- at ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film ... until Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (have you seen the teaser trailer yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation ... end of it; and the end of sophomore fall. Standing under the monument

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth ... . I entered the Broadway lottery and won a ticket to one of the less

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... ’ve also stopped updating the Tumblr I’d kept since my senior year of high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news event from the month of June 2006? This entry is actually about pictures from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  . In the middle of March, I set aside the novel I’m working on, promising ... I just sort of bowed my head into the storm.  A few more weeks passed ... choose to find the time, even if it’s at midnight. Some of them are long

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... judging from the radio play of "The Lazy Song," "Last Friday Night" and ... them perform live three times in three different cities in the span of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should ... while I was sleeping. One night, I dreamed that one of the performances at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... after the info session is over: The reason I know all of this is Dean ... MIT Admissions officers travel across the country during this season

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... , as it turns out, was on campus with most (all?) of the MIT 2009 Early ... them the best classmates we could. All said, a great day of selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... confronted with a world of people I had never related to. A majority of the ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017