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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... -computer interaction conference) at the end of April in Montreal! I’m super excited

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  of my time. There's a time I can recall Four years old and three ... I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since ... of doctors and nurses and I am afraid to talk to them. But there's a ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  District (where I buy hair dye when I put green streaks in my hair every so ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to ... three months. I've lived in Burton Conner since freshman year. BC ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs ... appreciate? ____" where ____ was either UPOP or the name of our mentor. I think

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... some ways, the end of this semester has been bittersweet. I have 3 ... our goodbyes and promises of keeping in touch and future reunions, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  in terms of distance i can run. currently my peak is 9 miles. by the ... they fit the *vibe* of the playlist. that way i can curate them into ... put to very good use this quarantine, where i can run for hours in cold

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  a department head, a dean, and on top of that, I'd often see him in ... well, but in the semester that you taught one of my classes, I learned ... someday with the same amount of joy that you had in teaching us. Perhaps I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included ... ...they're Artists in Residence. Each year, MIT brings exciting and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a ... presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply ... . Performers and guests will converge on campus in late October for a series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... . Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... course of study and institutional offerings.
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... crazy and do lots of work in exotic places during Independent Activities ... acceptable use of IAP! I turned my cell phone off, set up an auto-response on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... at least three bathrooms. Hey there. I'm in Leverkusen, Germany ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order ... Week 1: IAP Week 3: IAP Week 4: I spent a substantial amount of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• 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 ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say ... currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008