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• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... !!! this is the end of the honeymoon phase. cue the fights. cue the ... i know nothing about cooking whatsoever. i've been feeding off of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine in the winter), and I am spending three glorious days of complete ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where ... -cheerleader-dense part of the country (except maybe Miami, FL?). So to all the people I ... who has one of these get-togethers in their area in the next few days

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  sources of bad smells by regularly maintaining the general hygiene of your ... way of getting that subtle fragrance. The next time you visit the ... Back in the fall, I wasn't really sure if I made the right choice

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers ... . This is true even though MIT does not use the Common App; submission of ... small part of the application, and the word limit will in no way influence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class ... interesting. It focuses on the politics of framing—in other words, how people ... negative light in the West, and the current unit is about various elements of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  as much as I cook (I'll let you figure out the rate of each) neither ... left it in one of the side compartments of the MIT ambulance so we walked ... bluejeans and a shirt, definitely not what the president of MIT would ever

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of ... are not particularly picky about the definition of a blog. Broadly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  cold bottle of media is advised. Other notes: “This is probably the best ... actually has really small amounts of heavy water! The cells I babysit also ... taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... one of the Global Teaching Labs anyway. Sure, teaching is a lot of work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of ... the voices of 45 other MIT'ers from all walks of life. These quotes are brought to you by Sahar H. '17, founder of the Sleep is for the Strong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  beautiful posts about the current feelings of black people throughout the ... couldn’t. I began thinking about the type of things that you don't think ... some people try not to think about the inevitability of death. I put my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016