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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... works out that way. Instead, you have one more day to procrastinate and have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  game that we used to be obsessed with. She was going on vacation and ... home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  CALLED 'KAPOW'!!! IT IS STANDARD ETIQUETTE THAT ANYTHING RELATED TO CPW ... your CPW host. Please respond to them as quickly as you can--school doesn ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  together and input to a script which runs them automatically. So, you can let ... ... the observations were taken very close together and so they failed to ... final presentations and write-ups to the PI that explain the data taken

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  testament to how well our communities have stuck together in the past year and ... of Burton Conner. REX, which was from August 29 to September 1st, is the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions to our office, Jenny Rifken and Bryan Nance. You can welcome them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one subject at a time. After taking tests, I normally go back to my room to ... have 4 large windows that I normally open to let the breeze in. I like to

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens that some deadlines are very, very soon. I wouldn't want to tell you how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the infinite and ask if they have a few minutes to talk about this without, well

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the ... interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  later entry and instead use this one to give you progress reports over the course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... that assembled the admit packs (what you guys affectionately refer to as

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  “Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... large whiteboards. You can often find people using the white boards to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... household level that takes advantage of solar properties to treat water. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with KAPOW reminders and requests to ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  to form a community where we can learn and have a good time together ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022