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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  . Where I saw so many other people falter in their efforts, she persisted ... these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So ... assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to start the second part of my summer in Cambridge. But before that, I need

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  astronomy class; she wants to know if I can teach him about radio astronomy in ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... , unfortunately, and the remaining slices are covered in Balsamic vinaigrette. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... pretty excited because I can now write the date as "2-0-0-0" rather than "1

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  students in the middle, about three quarters of the applicants, were deferred to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  pretty hyped. So hype in fact, [annotation note="I can’t believe this is my ... work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... "]a written piece where every sentence was taken from a line in a song

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  ", which is where I went to figure out what to do. I called a phone number ... us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... paper-hungry but not with regards to money, but to how many journals I can

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... Bridge:     When I bike back home in the afternoon, I have ... ; Usually, I'm biking home in the sweet spot of post-rush hour and pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  mean? These are the questions that I ask myself about 20 miles in. I can ... reason that I should be awake right now. In less than 3 hours, I am ... , New Hampshire, all to finally walk 34 miles back to where I started. I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  semester where I can breathe a bit more, and I've found that the #1 way ... should work where you're happy and productive. Personally, I've ... ?   "Greetings from Chile, where I am observing with the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

   "Emergency Morale Booster Night" and the content was: - Salut la maison! I hope ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a ... really special. Juan can speak four languages, and Davie sings in his room ... , where are you from? Ben: Ben was born an errant macaroni farmer in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... . I gave in. I now speak in numbers and nicknames and mailing lists

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... was going on in this time that I straight up don't remember because it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... and on. Poi has become a sort of meditation for me, where I can just let ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016