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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... . i was either in a powerful enough place where i could slip into that ... led to that very introduction. But, I’ll touch on that in a bit. I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

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

  

  's basically the word "nonsense" in plural noun form, and I absolutely love it ... Spanish, so I don't feel out of line putting it in this blog. They ... curse word I can think of becomes a filler word in Spanish. I'm not even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... local ABC affiliate, boston.com, and Reddit. In light of these events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Putz): "I'm working in the Media Lab's Tangible Media Group on a new ... 2, of Simmons): "I'm off to be a girl scout camp counselor in Plymouth ... Senior Haus): "I'm spending the summer UROPing on campus, working in a lab

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... also in the way we are learning. The IHP Cities in the 21st Century ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most beautiful city in the world. I’m serious. It’s incredible. Look at this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  lake and decided that I would walk one hour in one direction, then turn ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... their final album, Made in Heaven, which I own. I own pretty much all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... actually cook, I envy you a lot). Do things you’re gonna miss in college ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... , and learn from that. I’m here to learn about other people and in the ... individual personalities. Personally, I get excited being in a conversation

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it ... that would require somebody buying me spray paint (because apparently you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048 ... within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  there isn't a world in which I would give up the opportunity to teach this ... For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  the exact numbers; I couldn't tell you even if I thought it would be ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005