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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... ! The stage is slanted to give the audience a better perspective, but this ... , the Bastille is an easier venue to perform in. The students of JSF went

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... it on, considering that my room heater is consuming as much energy ... , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... your own child is on the gifted side - since you clearly expected MIT to ... , it came off a lot better and a lot more truthful. Although a lot of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves ... Toscaninis or Christina's), and I'm becoming a fan of the Boston Red Sox. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... presume to call it anything near mature, but it is reminiscent of what I am ... somewhere about how “crying on public transport” is symptomatic of being in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  who I am. Maybe part of who I am -- or who I try to be -- is being ... to follow. But these are not, or else I am out of practice. This class ... myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  !). For those of you who are not as Potter-oriented, this hack is the scene ... figure out who (or what) is behind it all.     (Note: This is a stuffed ... onto his knees (which is true) but I still thought it was pretty. At

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... three major hikes to speak of, plus one noteworthy run: [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... and the Kaffa region overall gets a ton of rain, which is great because ... as a solution. Rain collection is a type of solution to water issues

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among ... expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the ... rounds of paint to turn them into walking canvases. In fact, on some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  third floor of the East Parallel of East Campus, which is currently (and ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Toy Design is to work in teams of 5 or 6 to explore the design process ... promise to be marketed and you need help on the startup. That's right, MIT ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  've developed a much better grasp on what economics actually is and what sorts of ... of being able to write a paper on a chosen topic. the last class i ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I ... still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It ... itself has kind of been taken over by Japanese restaurants and is home to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn ... markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. Empirical examples to ... week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  SPRING BREAK. This is a nice introduction to what I have going on this ... .282 Problem Set 8.282 is Introduction to Astronomy: a survey of galaxies, stars ... , the Musical Theatre Guild is putting on Urinetown. For those of you that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... photographs of, like, the entrances to government buildings or something ... on the common consent of the people," an idea dating to Oliver Cromwell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005