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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  some astronomers). I borrowed a few papers from Dale, didn't realize he ... ). "Is in the habitable zone" is a very different thing from "habitable," and "habitable" is a very different thing from "inhabited," but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... Pennsylvania, so I was in for quite a shock when I started meeting people from ... pictures but I'll steal some later from Allison's xanga. Stealing is wrong

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  the storm || a triplet of kills. 1:20 pm i'm back from 6.031 lecture ... , has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  only have i taken from mit, but i have also given back to it, as a citzen ... tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a ... , everything, which the author intended as a "feel good" game about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  nearest pharmacies are in Central Square (rather a walk from campus) since ... options: buy it from MIT Medical, through my Dad's insurance, or a local ... various annoyances related to buying medications from a very small, very

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  . But, as much as we can learn from ourselves, I believe we can also learn a lot from each other. The MIT Admissions bloggers are but a small ... earth. From little victories to large setbacks, everybody's gone through

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  people who live here moved from a long time ago, before simplified Chinese ... , away from the main roads. There was a small park, no wider than twenty ... Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  stress from midterms somehow, right? (I’m a little bit sad that no ... create a Vlogbrothers-esque “Thoughts from Places” video about New York ... /fun, a bunch of friends and I are dressing up as characters from the new

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... that class this past week. It's a 12 unit class, which means the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  are also a good chance for you to learn more about MIT from someone who ... another. You don't need to have pulled a child from a burning building or ... I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it tomorrow. Look, guys, I know I'm doing a biofuels UROP and everything, and I ... 've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  it. Would I not find, at MIT, a single anecdote from a single person ... mentors, driving a project from start to finish to the hands of people who ... When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  's some text from a detail about Justin: Like many summer camp friendships ... almost verbatim from Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough. It's a ... Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each morning presents me with a beautifully quiet campus. I wake up early and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  from under a thunderstorm on the street near the Longfellow Bridge. This ...   Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... a blog post but the bank past the Harvard bridge was already too

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  from Jess W., from frigid North Dakota! (wow ND - look at all that snow in the back!) The second entry is from Emily C., from San Jose ... , and your isef shirt is too :P) What's better, a Gummy Choco tube or a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  homesick for a place you’ve never been to recognizing someone as being from ... fall from trees this time of year, or how a conversation shifts to ... the trance that comes after watching a good movie or a good book, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019