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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  , EVERYTHING IS A NUMBER. So we arrived at our first restaurant after not too ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... when I was in high school I wasn't a big fan of world history, but seeing

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  , but at least like in real war, there will be a period of peace ... holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering ... opportunity to practice right then and there in a situation that’s fully

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  hard.” A little-known variation is, “Get your car stuck in mud, go apple ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... MIT. In the Air Force, being a good “wingman” is something highly valued ... does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in the US as a nuclear power plant. The city: Clamart is all ... Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech ... work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  ) Back on campus, IAP was in full swing. On campus, IAP is a time when ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... 's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit ... , Drive-Ins, and Dives (which is one of the few things we disagree on - I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  weekend in a charming rooftop cafe overlooking the Mosel River. Anyway, after paying, which actually is way easier in Germany, I went downstairs ... word in German for "the Pope" is "Papst" and I kept thinking he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  now- Adelaide '09 is visiting Madrid! We walked over a huge portion of ... marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm ... , it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and welcoming community found at MIT. In the video we feature Spanish ... parents, and post your questions! It is our hope that students will use

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... , this sensitivity is what makes quantum-enhanced sensing so useful in the ... the optical components in "free space" (as in a traditional optics setup

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week ... various dimensions of MIT's diversity. MIT is a melting pot of ideas, people

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... should have left us (opening the trunk on a Volkswagen Golf is, surprisingly enough, a nontrivial challenge in itself), we looked eagerly into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  's more than a job. All you can do is your best. Good luck ... ; The freshman application is now live on MyMIT. Our online application ... supplemental portfolios, is here. Our essay questions this year are (100

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  a summit in a co-cooking, potluck-style floor dinner. Ready? Go.                              ... For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... fork in the road, and every choice feels weighty in a place that you’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am ... of reach This is a post about feeling hosed and wishing it would go

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to find other people that will listen let alone participate in a ... assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  noticeably more than in Boston, and is significantly warmer. And we had a mere ... is really fun, and also teaches you a lot. For example, in Turkey, I ... a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007