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  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New Hampshire to camp outside the MIT Outdoors Club's (MITOC) Camelot cabin and go ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... is working together with farmers and credit union members to build

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s public art collection. This week, we went to the MIT List Visual Arts Center to see Otto Piene’s Litchballett and the Hans Haacke 1967

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P ... so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... . I want to put up an entry highlighting the various awesome things that ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  turned out to be apple blossom petals. Last week was Bumps week, which is ... behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit

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

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW ... air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... and it's snowed 15 inches. Oops. I'm trying to decide if I want to venture outside to go to the "happy hour" with grad students from 5-7, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... seminar will be required to actively participate in class discussion and to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very ... all wrong, and then asked us to consider, “Where the hell are you going

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I'd like to be helpful as you prepare to submit your application. However, before you submit your question, I'd like to ask you to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely ... did not have enough time for everything I wanted to do this past

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021