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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing ... and professor of doctoral studies at the Animation School of Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at ... a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... , and found my roommate at his desk. After seeing my puzzled look, he said

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  other news, one of my favorite people at MIT left this week for a semester ... ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I read Chin's book about five years ago, and was madly into it at the time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year ... here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... the scene below (note the delicious Mike's Pastry at right): not your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also ... kinds of them — from people who are still young and also some who are old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the ... resolved. MIT is observing the New Year's Day holiday today (1/2) since the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... light? I certainly did at the end of our tour because our zoologist was ... eternity staring at tarantulas. (It turned out that one of the other groups

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs.   ISEF went great ... with CMS/Civic classmate Rodrigo, who now runs product at Neighborly ... med school.   My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  Centre of the Peoples of the Amazon before then. At the Cultural Center ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  facts here. People at MIT may make a lot of robots here, and there may be ... -genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been ... Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven ... ) (credits to Evie'13 for the titles of these masterpieces - and for the whole ... ; there's lots of candy inside. The 2013s will probably schedule a pinata

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  at something that complicated and sort of maybe understood a bit of how ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... subject at hand, but these aren't the type of intense supervisor I want to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  component, down the leads of the plushy, and are soldered to magnetic snaps at ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008