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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  I was introducing myself at dinner I said I was from Boston and one of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I ... dropped out some classes at the end of a semester because they took too many ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  work? 1. Gaze in wonder at the 600+ works of art at the Student Loan Art ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... that when I look at it, I can find some form of enjoyment in the visual

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... hard, but at the same time, I'm real proud of him." ... Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of the Metabolite Profiling Initiative at the Broad Institute here at MIT ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  -campus grocery store.[annotation note="The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in the winter of my sophomore year, LaVerde's permanently closed its doors

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into ... less “great unknown” to distract me than at the start of the year. The ... I’ve been reminded of how much I love home. But at least I’m headed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... strangest dream of my life. Many will argue it was a nightmare. All of my ... as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... . I leave Boston at 8 AM Eastern. I arrive at SFO, run into several of my fellow recruits (most of us have interviewed at other programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  knicknacks, and a copy of Zac Gorman's new comic Costume Quest: Invasion of the ... Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006