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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three ... word about my job until mid-May.) "Be a camp counselor!" said Peach. "I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks. If you look close enough, you can see the barge responsible for all the excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K ... the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... , Melis. (But you do have beautiful eyes :P ) I went on a warm-up jog and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I ... ." cool, eh? There's no website yet for the project, but you can check out ... the show on the 2.009 webpage, a class where Barry was the TA. Side

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly accomplished my IAP goal of seeing a celebrity, since Jai Rodrigez of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see ... know what's going on around here, so this will be fun for me as well. :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear ... pulled up. Survive bear encounter: check! A couple minutes later, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , turned into a prop for the glory of the other half.” “I didn’t have dreams ... going to become a soldier and there was nothing I wanted to fight for ... favorite. The first issue can be read for free. Once upon a time, each of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High ... for the first time, and made a gazillion horrible uneven diagonal cuts ... greasy" being a regular color for my hands. I loved finding aluminum

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  , because this is a word with some meaning behind it. And for me ... the US (in New Jersey, no less!) for 21 years and Spain for a month and ... ?" Aarrrgghhh! Please, for a moment, just imagine this. You are really frustrated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  picked out a coat for me. It was beige, but like tasteful beige. It had a ... to be so much material for the lapel that it might just be a waterfall ... 's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I ... that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... also your adviser for the first year. 21m.a16 is beyond independent ... long, but we still play for seven hours at once a lot of the time. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that ... sciences, working for New Horizons. She graduated undergrad in '13 with a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I ... writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for ... 's posted to the web, it's worth a watch (but I pre-apologize for the audio

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  students for academic and personal support. In the background, a double ... other two are. I'm old. Sorry. Seal shank Look for a bunch of small ... Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... one in the 180’s. This number stood atop the jar for a contestant named ... -- “Maggie Lloyd.” The room erupted into more cheers. For a split second, my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... this), engaging him in a dolphin-meowing match for half an hour. He ... see a cat heading for the stairwell door or fire escape, grab it. It

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  developing a program for first-years focused on the personal wellbeing and ... students and renowned faculty all sharing a passion for academics, personal ... , you have a new option for helping you eat well: a fresh approach

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking ... a beautiful piano piece, started learning glassblowing, rehearsed for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025