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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... . After eating, we left our hostel and found ourselves in a fruit and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... 't take it for a million dollars. You will always hear people say how much ... as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... non-technical fields, too. I know how to write a specification for a ... different person than the Maggie from 2008. When I came to MIT, I lived in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... feeling it. In all honesty that is how most all of my writing goes. When it comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT ... ester, is not a productive approach. Here's what we French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern ... since: how industrial Britain and Germany cast [annotation note="a pre

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a ... (N), of successful free throws she has made in her first N attempts of the ... than just a yes or no answer here =) For those of you interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a ... 's Green Building Challenge implemented a diverse variety of strategies in ... , beating the other nine teams by a huge margin. In last place, team 41W

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him, judging by how many times I heard that "good neighbor policy" story ... to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... perform between showings. This is, of course, talking about a group that ... down in 'e d i t' by Samantha D., MIT Class of 2015, a series that takes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  my writing now and am kind of sad at how stiff it is. There's not a lot ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  bloggers (Alliteration! Woo! Sorry if that comes across as vain…). In a few ... , until this summer when I officially moved to live in a hotel (aka Maseeh ... building a fort out of pillows, a rollercoaster, or room decorations. In high

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and ... 'd say that just as much of my time is spent feeling like this: ^^This

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps ... days before the paper was due, resulting in a record-setting twenty

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... a few Asian shops and markets in and around Chinatown, which is ... about living in Macgregor next year, but I have a question. I know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much ... allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real ... .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working ... student RA, basically, for those of you unfamiliar with the term) is a really active member of MITOC- the MIT Outing Club, which owns a cabin in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  poker is a wonderful medium in which to draw analogy. Sitting with a J♠ J ... This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry ... 2.006 test (which was likely to be VERY hard). All of a sudden, in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009