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• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... , we opted to buy a bottle of water, which somehow cost $4. A Dunkin ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

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

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  to focus on biology or chemistry) Physics: -1 year of physics with lab ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  of anchoring it to a particular modern-day place or person. The set is ... Show One of the most fun parts of working on a show is being on the ... people. The indication of rank we chose to makr the King is a royal purple

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  tennis court on any of my walks to or from MacGregor. So kudos to having a ... of a process than an event; sure, the main goal is to get the frosh ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... : Continued on Page B13 Description: This dress is made out of newspapers and ... skirt is made of plastic tablecloths, and the corset is constructed on a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  generation I grew up playing Starcraft, which is to say spending hours ordering ... more. Vultures@MIT, or, What To Do With That Leftover Pizza First of ... of things to do, the struggle instead is with the firehose: learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  is to take Monday and Tuesday as hard vacation: no work or email, just ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... this week, but for now, here is a photo of us having an ice cream reunion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  on one of our psets, which refers to "Professor Alan Guth," father of ... indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8.033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  given. Mildly disappointing is how some choose to take advantage of it ... yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is ... " -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  distance of this place from anything I'm used to is bitingly obvious. I took ... , and looking ahead to all of first semester is crazy intimidating. But so ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  zombie on the loose is to shoot him. With Nerf guns. Also in the 23 ... broken. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the floors had a Wii on, we did ... Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... . It's a battle of determination to see whose will is strongest. You ... , maybe I'll be one of those beard guys." This is the last half week or so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  down the Infinite to the tune of S'weight, which was requested of us by ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... want to know is do people ever use registries for anything else? Because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... consistent image online. The posting has to be regular, which is really important when it comes to social media. The second phase of the class is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  are unique and diverse - this is a great way to explore some of them ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  specifically to notify students of events that have free food. :)" This is most ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow ... /20 (which is also my friend Ben's birthday), get ready for the most ravishing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005