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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

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

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... 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

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers ... a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  a handful of old acquaintances, one of my problem solving partners from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2.009 team ever (Go Yellow!), and every single one of my ex-boyfriends that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  employment of my high school friend Ryan at Doc Holliday's. 3. Every Friday ... threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  public inner-city high school, slagged through hours upon hours of the most ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... the disastrous combination of boring and detail-oriented—but every year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  high school and so this kind of makes sense. Listening to TFB was really ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  (the German equivalent of a high school) in Essen --  Leibniz Gymnasium -- located in the northwestern region of Germany. We were hosted by a computer ... ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put ... more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could ... ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... specific major or a specific school/college within MIT. Students who are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  title in High School (it's addictive) and being stripped of that title on ... far, far away from dorm government during High School. I sort of just ... First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013