Search

Search Results

• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... a circle of people around you to help you grow. The 30,000 were that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico, funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... Series Trophy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... state shark biologists). He was talking about having to rescue a shark

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  likely to infuriate or simply leave a scientist nonplussed. And nothing, of ... 't expect to hear any names here. "It's probably always a stupid question ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  dress shirt, tie, slacks, and a coat to class. But that's certainly not ... can send in a picture of your invention, the place to send it would be ... takes place in a mirror, then who knows. Ceiling Cat will have to sort it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without ... and i took a trip to switzerland and italy after our internships ended ... . Cigarettes After Sex is a band to clarify jake and nisha's soundcloud - songs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... admissions team that I was trustworthy enough to a) run my own CP* events b) have my own channel to livestream to adMITs and c) host my own Q&A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... a full-size chocolate bar. The good stuff. Then we’d drive to the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  reverting back to a 24/7 schedule next year. During CPW, there were little ... , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a ... in a Sketchbook, it's gonna take a certain dose of courage to start ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  generic name for soft drinks. If you go to a restaurant and say "Could I have a coke?" you'll be asked "What kind?" To me, this seems natural, but ... It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  tablet work a charm. The six tips were all textured differently to give you ... there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. I spent a few hours

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end ... TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005