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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around ... = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with ... ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational ... about it. But I can assure those of you who applied to these programs that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... they fit the *vibe* of the playlist. that way i can curate them into

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... opinion, some of the best blogs that have ever been written for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... -year undergraduate student at MIT, a math major and one of only five current MIT ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... decent chance of admission, from applying. This would also give confidence

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  musical wing of Next House, and every semester, we put up an extensive list of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We had a lot of events listed this semester—[annotation note="more about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... dormitory; we celebrated 100 years of being open just last October. Senior

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs/artists, so I only actually recognized one out of my top five artists this year (and that person was 4th) 💀 Music is also not my preferred medium of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of travel. most of the time, pushing is the correct choice the fundamental

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

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  COVID, but there is some sick part of me that is relieved that I have gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022