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• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are related to Sam's Mom ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common ... headed over to the Garden stripped down to my underwear, and, well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... looked like. For 2016, I wanted to really push for change. I decided I ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  -wracking. I got back to my dorm, and immediately filled out an application for ... to complement my coding work, making for a very engaging summer ... side, no matter where we were, we wouldn't have to walk for long to find

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three ... out for yourself if a school is the right fit for you. To be honest, I ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  , I started jogging for the door, while the Dalek announced to everyone ...     (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how ... (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially ... mailing lists asking for people to join us, and by the next week we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  for certain whether this was related to the event or merely incident to ... gathering for some event, really, I couldn't care less about it. I wanted to ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... Gold Award projects. I'm learning to ice skate for PE credit (I'm from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  -related material on the side in order to “not lose interest in economics.” Personally ... each theory were true. Essentially, we would have to decide for ourselves ... yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... April I started to miss all the dimensions of my personality I'd thrown ... 's much easier for me to justify skipping a workout when all that's at stake

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... kg of steak for 35 euros, and we rounded the trip out with a visit to ... masterpiece in person. to be continued...

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  , but for the first time, I truly was scared I was going to royally mess ... pushing myself to spend countless hours studying for a test that truth be ... , all that in the upcoming weeks. For now, I have to play an April Fool

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip ... to come home to food that you know is delicious, was made personally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  anyone can post an idea for making America better. The ten ideas that receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day ... to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  what he's up to. "What d-d-d-did you have for d-d-d-dinner? EASY ... don't want to say too much more about it, for reasons I couldn't say ... stroking for the day, the real reason is because today was so cool, so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I ... activists, now alums, were personal friends, and I talked to them and read the ... as a senator from East Campus) was to provide the kind of example for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office ... While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President Obama's speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 ... this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009