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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... the one purchased. Or they could. To paraphrase: "We'll arrive in time ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... ’s determining the location of where we are in the world, the area connecting to a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  even later. I rushed to a classroom in Building 4 to staff office hours ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a ... . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate. When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack ... so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I

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

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in ... adequately respond to the health issues in Africa range from financial ... done to change them and what role students (in particular MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston ... made a stop in New Hampshire to walk the Artists Bluff Trail, which is a ... worth it. Afterwards, we drove to the Airbnb in Maine which had a lake in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... day hiking in the rain he immediately ran upstairs to take a hot bath

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no ... friend’s, who left the theater in a trance, repeatedly saying “what the f

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  experience was rare But I learned a whole lot and I have more knowledge to ... Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the ... admissions in a full time capacity. Over the course of my career, I have

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... new store, I took a different street back to my dorm. [caption id ... way back, I stumbled across a park.     In the park, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic ... in general. I went from barely being able to do a mile in September of ... time ever. To start off 2021, I moved into a studio apartment in East

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... calling to settle a bet between me and my stepdaughter. We wanted to know if

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023