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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... only did I become a bit more stylish with the aquisition of the peacoat ... ! And lots of them! So, as you now know, I am from Colorado and the area

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  Communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, like Dave, perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... one of the constitutive elements of this new borg-Ben newly arisen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today ... series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... . Lunch: Salami and cheese sandwhiches have been the staple of my lunch ... before that one of the hardest things about my eating schedule is trying to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... . A handful of the many awesome students: Nicole (an amazing young woman ... ), and Aliza (future head writer of the Mystery Hunt). More awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer ... , according to the piece I was asked to prepare). I immediately become aware of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked passed the laundry room without noticing. Seriously, the end of term &

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... onto the next attack: cancelling plans. This part of being sick sucks, in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class ... got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good ... many applicants. Well, I’ve never been the Dean of Admissions of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the Harvard Admissions Institute. The first day of NACAC is mostly social. Some

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no ... say that he's basically the rock star of biology: central figure in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest ... . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  of the time? what do these feelings even mean?"]agonizing teenage self-reflection[/annotation] and the [annotation note="re: prying parents"]rest of the world.[/annotation] For those who grew up like me, it became the first mode of distinction

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... of products that spun out of 2.009 and into the market. I remember ... asked a question of the Green Team. You can evaluate whether it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an ... think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... , physics. Four points for every toss up, ten for every bonus. The sound of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two ... on the ambulance this semester, one of which I'm currently on, and will ... planning to spend the rest of the day buried in orgo like an ostrich in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007