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• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Beginning Saturday MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2015. If there's one in your ... and spend a bit of the afternoon in the home of a wonderful MIT Alum

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... . This would seem an even better idea when you'll be spending six weeks in said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... Cambridge was hosting a city-wide dance party in the street, and so we decided

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed ... President Emeritus Paul Gray, for its work in picking Schmill. Schmill said ... and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for cancer, or is in remission from cancer. Camp Kesem began at Stanford

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that in the days to come members of the community will organize additional opportunities to gather in remembrance. At the same time, we encourage those with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... designing a low-cost peanut butter machine for a women's collective in Haiti ... the show today in the largest lecture hall in the Stata Center. Not only

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... in less than 10 minutes. Kneel before me, Rachael Ray. Last entry ended ... weekend in a charming rooftop cafe overlooking the Mosel River. Anyway

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

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry ... deposited in holes that looked like the windows in Simmons. Did you know

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  out that after about 5 miles you end up in Dorchester. Having never been ... , warm, and breezy 9 months a year in Boston, just like in Southern ... , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the ... in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... absurd amount of fruit snacks in the past month. Despite the covid

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021