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• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... awesome, so go read it! Secondly: Some of you may have read my blog post ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of ... rounds up some of the amenities Architecture students get at MIT. Because ... Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... like that of last week, where at 11 AM on Friday, I was working on my 5

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  , coming in every beat at a tempo of 146 bpm or 2.43 beats per second, so i ... , don’t i want to be able to read the next two or three sets of arrows at ... there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  after the start of those, “Virgin Bartending” (non-alcoholic) begins. At 2 ... of an MIT education - a drink from a firehose). At different locations ... , Spies, and Computer Coding. And 6 hours later, at 8 am, we get a choice of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... as a comment. There are iPod shuffles at stake here.

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  great lecturer that he was one of two people ON THIS PLANET (or at least ... status of women faculty in science at MIT in the early 90's, which was one ... former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  critiquing our deceptions, to our own selves and also to others; at the end of ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  according to Wikipedia: 546 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila ... excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1777 – France formally recognizes the United States of America. 1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving ... no means the views of everyone at MIT or even myself for that matter

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  (She's a rockstar by night) So Thursday night we got a preview of ... birthdays over Campus Preview Weekend, but the real show was during Battle of ... . Raffle of Guitar Hero An aside, if you will: Guitar Hero is one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  when I was 8 years old at my local community park, the majority of my ... friends. At the time, the mechanics of the sport were second in importance ... that I had had when I was 8. At MIT, as a part of the varsity tennis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these numbers and rejoiced over others. At one point or another, each of these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... middle of our Middle English quiz. At 5:30pm, I followed Professor Bahr ... Rome. I sat at the central table, feeling a little out of place. Michael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  I have experienced love before, at least I think so. Awkward hand holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  during the school year. But those seven days at the end of the summer ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... the totally relaxing non-MIT parts of my late summer adventures. At a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012