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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome. And here's where I learned what it meant to suffer from a language ... visiting the Colloseum and randomly running into a bunch of people from MIT ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog, A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel ... freshman here, but don't play a sport right now. I'm from the Highlands

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... : one for the [annotation note="From wikipedia: A stepper motor, also ... wihch provides more torque from the stepper motor through a 5:1 gear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... , but success across the board. Every MIT team in the NEWMAC has won a ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  from a student perspective. photos by Bruce Mendelsohn Finally, the ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  either have an easy exit in the aisle seat or a beautiful view from the ... Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  worked most days, was about 10 ft away from this ladder! I lived in a ... without some initial guidance from a TA. But somehow (I’m guessing because ... THEY MAKE THIS ?!?!?!?! This is a close up of a piece made from a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  downtime enjoying a snack (raw cookie dough from the freezer is my favorite ... been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  -clogging breakfast. Yum. 9:15 AM: Grabbed a cup of tea with Minh from the Lobby 7 ... papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  ). He comes from Riverton, Kansas, a town of slightly under 1000 people ... most of his problem sets from this desk. Right next to it is a wall ... bench was inspired by a typical scene from action movies, in which a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  a freshman. I was also wondering what sporting activities are really ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... friends. They really contribute a lot to my sanity some days. They really

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  . On Tuesday, students present on a randomly selected song from the album ... ) response on it, reading a few chapters from the book The Beatles by Hunter ... Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment ... solving the problems associated with creating a curriculum and breaking down

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  (from the MIT campus newspaper, The Tech. This comic was published in ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it ... matching tests, an optional sight-reading, and a short excerpt from a song I ... Anyone who knows me from high school or Mathcamp or [annotation note

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  the pack from the solar array. The race day begins with a two hour ... drive until 6pm, followed by a charging period from 6 pm to 8pm and then ... sailing, but while the car ran like a dream, the weather was far from ideal

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  and dreamy and a wonderful diversion from the #MITlife. It was also the ... to examine the witch hunt from a feminist perspective and discuss the ... (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from ... that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016