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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess ... Adelaide and hoping I got back before Shaw's closes so I can go buy some ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... least we thought it was just in the rooms. The other day I was caught by surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

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

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  ’t feel anything while editing and sometimes I can only get through it in 15 ... ’t take off for months—and have my hair in a half ponytail. I can see the ... where I hold influence over the future of my students. I am in the same

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House ... hall: "I live in Baker now and I have to pay for preferred dining, so I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want ... Silence" * Nina Simone - "I Shall be Released" * Jimmy Cliff - "You Can Get ... Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal ... , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  night in Hong Kong, I leaned over the balcony in the common room and watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... just walk around in them, so I thought, "Okay, whatever." The guy basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... , squat repeat Practice, wow I can’t do anything well today? Am I getting better, I can’t let the team down, can’t let coach down, can’t let myself

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  had located the balls, but where was the ballpit? Turns out I was in ... paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... I’ve learned to accept that my life can be in shambles. Being a human ... is where, in some strange, twisted, throat-coatingly saccharine way, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the ... Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The ... getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once ... , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron ... do some work. When I got there, they were all hanging out in the floor ... pictures of Killian Court.       Once I was back in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  , I give you this: . . . where "fractal-like vegetable" indicates a ... peppering of apple orchards across this region. I buy all fruit from grocery ... 80% more blog for the same price by throwing in an IAP update. Also, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009