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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to ... the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the ... guest blogs that would undoubtedly be popping up over the course of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the nicest people I’ve ever met. I got lost a few times (ok, a LOT of

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... little New England town that you probably haven’t heard of. Enter freshman ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  handing out of the degrees. Otherwise, check the commencement web page for ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... know of any other really good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in the area ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  responses I received with you all. I hope you enjoy this cross-section of what ... A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... ’t sure about equipment quality or cross-compatibility between different sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... sent me. (It was something short, along the lines of "Congratulations!"). If you're always nervously unpatient about these sorts of things, like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting involved. (I kid you not, a friend of mine actually kept a calendar of free ... that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind of nice, really: mario kart in the lounge outside, teasing the hall ... package of semisweet chocolate chips INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 375

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• 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 ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010