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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement ... so many other factors that the admissions committees would be looking at. And generally, the programs that I'm applying to accept around

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that ... marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me Twenty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it ... . Instead it’s about the complete picture of who you are as a student, as an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction ... intermittent use – i.e. when one of the Phi Sig brothers (or friends of Phi Sig ... the Back Bay are. The number of spectators increases one walks the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha ... think). The sound quality of the recording, of course, inferior. After

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to ... of two constants during the four-day trip was the cacophonous racket ... Student Center to Skullhouse across the river, music of some kind never

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

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  accomplishment are already evident in the class: Sarah Dupuis of New Preston, Conn ... at the age of eight and now holds 20 national rifle championship titles ... investigating how math has affected the rise and fall of civilizations over time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever ... where we stayed in stilt houses characteristic of the Black Thai, an ... made this field the site of strange experiences. A late night stroll down

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... says a lot about MIT. It says the kind of things about MIT I will be

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field. MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... for many years to come. I was part of the transportation group. Each day

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  so into the hectic rhythm of classes, psets, extracurricular commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... suggestion of the correlation between smoking and death. A label might read

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I ... Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... things. (Also kind of humorous how the remnants of an 18.02 lecture are on ... and executive producer of the game Journey. Her talk reminded me how

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

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was ... Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up ... no fear biking. In the 2.6 mile stretch of road from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... the time of the program, we weren’t sophomores yet because of the “conservation of frosh,” (meaning freshmen are still freshmen until the next class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017