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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  where I fit in. It was a great feeling to eat breakfast before leaving on ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out. ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  I've come home and found a place where I can unabashedly be my loud ... embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... blogpost was 3) I am happy and loving living in the Delta Phi Epsilon house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  thing you can do after seeing shows on Broadway ™ in NYC ™. But apparently ... 's child, baking, for the first time in her life, can't mask her problems ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight

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

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  send in a newspaper article (front page :)) where I was one of the main ... . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... hear that, after two weeks of uncertainty over where i was going to stay in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... to hunt down stumble upon Zendaya when I can barely speak, look like a blobfish, and can infect her. This sickness feels like a test. In a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... fascinating, I somehow felt like I was missing something - biology, in its pure ... classes in the fall, I realized that I was heading in the wrong direction

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put ... away from Colón, where I knew there would be thousands of people starting ... direction. Obviously they are leaving the game, so I just need to walk in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  Scrubs" now, in this McDonalds in Marseille where you can order a Croque Mc ... December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And ... being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  . I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... Newbury Comics, my new all time favorite store. Where I picked up a copy

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023