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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... competition, when we'd have ten minutes to discharge six shots into a paper ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four ... ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  in black, belted cargo pants (which took forever to find, by the way ... administer CPR, use an AED, help a choking person, take vitals, find pressure ... still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... our commitment to a science and technology centered education integrated ... many families, it will be a stretch. To help, this year we have increased

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’s [annotation note= "residential exploration, a period during orientation where students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events ... more independent— I’ve had a few opportunities to live alone during my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  , there is the potential to create a community and find a sense of belonging ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... 'm too disoriented to figure out when that was), I dreamt about a certain

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the perfect day. A day when I had a blogger meeting or plans to go out for ice ... Fridays) Side note: I originally wanted to make this like a game of

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  essay is your chance to shine; it's a lot of work, but it's where you ... left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year ... -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  vacation, there is a place where I can wake up to cold, fresh air and fall ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... language lab, meeting with a fellow EC resident and software developer to put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... , weren't even plowed, but I managed to score a ham/sausage/cheese omelette at a hole in the wall called the Golden Rooster. This place's claim to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  looked quickly at a map, and committed not to open it unless I got lost ... way back, but I decided to take a different route, choosing to pass through a neighborhood. It was a part of Boston I haven’t been to before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where ... competition is a "tech inspection," where the airplane is inspected on the ... , headed to Olive Garden for a well-deserved dinner, and then called it a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... more than just a niche - they've given momentum to an overseas movement ... , it's taken them all the way to Seoul, South Korea, where two juniors

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one-semester class) and runs for half a semester. i'm especially looking forward to 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  decision will allow you to make a stronger contribution to it. Let me try an ... contribute to their own school of thought, they just repeat a diluted version ... 't you apply that to the place where you live? Oh yeah, and regardless of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015