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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it, Akash asked, "Hey Laura, do you have any bread?" Now I'm a friendly kid

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  evaluate each application.  In a blog post on COVID from early March, we ... have been redirected as well.  I know that this may be a frustrating ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus from Logan Airport to MIT all day Thursday, and back from MIT to Logan on ... ? Taking a break from thinking about admissions stuff? " Well, we're mostly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a ... CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is ... -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  cell thinks, but also how a cell biologist thinks” (from Prof. Adam ... education through OpenCourseWare. Then came edX, a massive online open course ... equivalent of a textbook.”  This week, a panel of four MITx

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a semester because Mechanical Engineering has a special program). The experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... , with a long flowing white beard), (2) mechanical engineering has replaced ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  . 5. Try new things Don't be afraid to break from routine once in a ... from home when his dad had a heart attack. Along his time at MIT, he ... The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  won a $25,000 grant from MTVU and GE. Seriously! $25,000! Won by ... , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  you a little, you know? So last week Thursday, when my mom flew in from ... pasta. How about a tomato?" (Hi, Mom.) Aside from that, we bought some ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... explanation. Let me try again. First, here are some excerpts from the article

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  which I hopefully will still have a key Saturday -- Leave from Cologne ... formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Carvel ice cream cakes. That's just a quick walk from anywhere on campus ... and a half from the station, so you could either walk or take the #105 ... family, and we had a lovely time. I made snickerdoodle cookies and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  standout moments from the trip! A private tour of the Paris Opera. The first ... in English!) JSF is a really unique program. Unlike IAP Madrid, which I did last year, it’s not a class (no homework—yay!!!). Instead of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  , I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but ... considered boring and bad from a [annotation note="at least, that's what one of ... , I don't think I could hum a single song from the soundtrack off the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... Marching Band grew out of a group from 2nd East. The guy in the shorts was ... next 17 years, I would basically be pulling things from <a href="http

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  was a place of peace and comfort, where you were insulated from the ... friend from Dartmouth was telling me a story about how she came home one ... This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  title is a lyric from a japanese song. the playlist consists of songs that ... a slow dancing mood ever strikes me. (fun fact, La Festin from the ... keep making a playlist for every year that I’m at MIT. thanks, me from

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  yesterday I got boba and lunch with a friend from high school who now lives in ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021