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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  the camera and sneak snacks? This is a safe space, man. Ameer: I feel ... " anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation with someone. So, I reached out to Ameer on Slack and said "Ameer! Let

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at MIT. I've talked about the MIT Bubble on the blogs before, but damn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end up finding ourselves at Back Bay Station. part 4: did i tell you i ... [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could ... from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I'm currently wearing two t-shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  a bunch of ASEs, none of which I ended up passing (pro tip to seniors ... to play guitar in junior year of high school because I was too shy to ... Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... school anyway (scholarships, man). For some reason, I went to mitadmissions ... have, but it ended up working. I had a nice conversation with my EC that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  clothing + a hat + gloves, peering through the telescope I set up. I managed ... the magnitude system and optics. I talked more about the class here. One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... many murals on campus. :) I'd also like to give a quick shout out to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  lot to me as a high school student. i made really close friends, learned ... , and so i ended up staying in my [annotation note="yes yes back in the ... . hadestown was the first musical i saw after covid lockdowns ended. a lot had

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... . Dodecahedron near CambridgeSide Galleria Most people end up in the Lechmere Canal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  window. The man and woman stood back and watched. I thought, this is what ... At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  . On the way home, we ran into Jerome, I think wearing one of the hats ... -year life cycle I bought a JuniorTicket for 13.40 from the Leverkusen ... I'm living Köln or Bonn as much as I want. Even though it pays for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  summer job and at the end of every day I have amusing stories to tell my ... 's what I spent my junior year of high school doing- trying desperately to ... HowStuffWorks.com when I got home. (I highly recommend this method.) I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Jefe’s Taqueria - located in Harvard Square, high quality tacos Man O ... and Bova in North End) Go on a bike ride through Boston (i recommend ... Bean Bags - pretty comfy the first few times I took a nap here. But after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... and I got stickers and bookmarks, smiles and hellos. We got free sci fi ... Woman Upstairs. I was beyond extremely incredibly thrilled to see the two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  after the hearing aid was put into his ear. After the experience ended, I ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  very true. Looking back rationally on the story, I think Peter’s ending ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn't injure myself again, but it still just ended up being a long, long, long day requiring some comfort food at the end. I haven't been to Star

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  last time: Front High [i] sheep [ɪ] pick Middle [e] hate [ɛ] shred ... text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is ... teeth. [t] tap - unvoiced [d] door - voiced [s] sail - unvoiced [z] zebra

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017