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• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  my friends. We chose Hawai'i because it was close to my family and my ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... shop at Don Quijote, and then go back. By the time I'd get home, it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine ... minutes). Despite the extremely packed state on the trains, Kenmore Square is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  you count Bermuda and the Bahamas, which I don't). This makes me very ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my ... travel experiences really were, and how little of world out there I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At ... the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!

  

  How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  start circling around and around in my head, descending into a state of ... worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... falling in love. You're thinking their thoughts and feeling their emotions

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and Regular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... asparagine was named after asparagus, and that if our body pH levels dropped below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  States and all proceeds will be re-invested into the program, the shelter ... travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS ... subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  surprisingly numerous students who enjoy the outdoors and travel. If there's one ... , especially for an MIT student), settling onto the plan and watching the ground ... and independent and refreshed, even though I always get (un)lucky enough

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010