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• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... dissonant impressions of Barcelona into a single experience, but overall I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... very well. Personal Air Vehicles open up a lot of possibilities in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... Friday, Linh ’13 and I took a train to a nearby city, R√ºdesheim, where Di ... hot sun with me instead of taking a cable car, but somehow, I did. She

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a ... corporate jobs in favor of teaching and research, so I’ve wondered if even my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a ... over the summer (when I was living in MacGregor) and got really sick of ... places (in fact, all of them, as far as I know) also have options for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of ... fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five ... I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested ... officers themselves, were different and special in their own way. However, I ... Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but I think they're a fun way to take your mind off of something. Here are

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  down some stretches of road are so flat, I swear you can see your own ... can stand on the smallest of ledges, which understandably helps a lot in ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  school ended and spent the rest of my schooling in the Twin Cities area ... carbon copy of the childhood home that existed in my mind. And I was ... .   . . .   I was so tired of moving. I still am. In the past

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well, looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ”) that I was won over almost immediately, in spite of the grey spring ... into MIT, just like I didn’t take any of the classes I took in high school or participate in any of the extracurriculars I participated in to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  third of the way through, but it's the first book in a while that I ... of pages."]super cool characters that I've fallen in love with ... everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you can save the world.  I'll put my life on this interview right now. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... restaurant in Jamaica Plains, a suburb of Boston. I haven't been there since ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... lot of money. I did some calculations in my head. The benefit I'd get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston ... you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... one. There's one biggy, the litmus test of tourism in Boston, and that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... only way I could think of exploiting this situation was to go buy a ... plastic for $$$ and nobody took debit. I set out in search of an ATM as the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008