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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by ... get a B i'll be stoked. 6.911 and 6.912 (GEL) - i'm in the gordon ... how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summary i would see in 'mission control' (swipe up with three fingers on the ... the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I would really do much when I joined. I figured the first few weeks would

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... post 25 things about yourself in the comments. HA. I'm enabling your high ... person today that I thought I would be. I thought I'd never be an engineer

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  , in a sense, it is what I would answer to the questions “what is the ... people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... my housemates would be good people or not, but i ended up having a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭 ... magical experiences I’ve had in nature–all these enormous petals gazing up ... things blooming on campus in April and May. I guess spring really does live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... marching band Thursday: Same as Tuesday, but instead of psetting I go in to ... unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... , I felt like a pebble in a never-ending stream of people. It would be ... it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically

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

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  realities often, wondering if I hadn't gotten into MIT, if I would be in a ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... would stick with me as much as they did, but even now, I think back to it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that I've loved ever since. So I thought that there would be a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... confidence in the area. Some cool opportunities came my way: I was invited to ... mathematics, which I’d attended in high school. I was accepted into well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  in figuring out what I would do this summer, saying "uhhh probably a ... -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016