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• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... remember today for the people who didn't get to have a phone call like mine

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France ... for me, I’ll be going to Beijing, China. I’ve been looking at MISTI

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through ... (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... EMTs. Writing a short story for my HASS class was entirely entertaining ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... differential systems for 18.03 (differential equations). Yes, I have two midterms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  going to help build something going to space! This is a capstone class for ... 've graded before for a different class, and it was also pretty easy; the head ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first ... 's almost redundant. =) But hey, any suggestions for a new title are more than ... -generation Mindstorms. They deviate from Mindstorms in a very important way: instead of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to ... by just going for a mishmash look - I picked up some blue, purple, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  fort is almost done, it just needs a roof. IHOP, a hut for cookie ... good 20 trashbags full of them, enough for a 4-foot by 8-foot ballpit, a ... we could use for the walls, but I decided we needed a floor, too

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  , for which (if you aren’t familiar) you can intern abroad in a foreign ... from the beginning, when I had been procrastinating for a very long time ... !). Economics is not a super common field of study for undergrads, and while she

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  11, 2018: McCormick Hall I really really wish I had a photo of this ... first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... five miles (for a total of 18 miles). We didn't have to go up the Hill of ... next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  forming for like 3 blocks down a side street. At 6:45, after much scuffling ... a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  , screaming for my mom. Muddy water pounced on my legs with icy strength. A few ... if you’re lucky, while heading to a dining hall for lunch one normal day after class, you might grind to a halt for a different reason

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  hand, and more importantly, it’s kind of like a hub for a lot of ... advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... over the course of the semester. I drew out patterns for a big chicken

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... that as a basis for "note-taking" guidelines. If you went it alone, notes ... available to me? Does work study mean that I'll get a hair-net & spoon for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  carve out time for that activity. I finally read a gift from sophomore ... thesis on a German novel) asking for recommendations, and at a ... abundance of resources for becoming a scientist. This is what disturbs me: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  , Antichrist) based the idea for his newest movie from a depressive episode he ... [by Faye '11] Photo Credit: cmagz.com tldr; version ... , there was a line stretching all the way down the exterior set of stairs

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010