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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  were playing a game in which the last person to laugh was the winner ... about it some more once I hear the jet engines whirlin'. :) But for now ... there for more than 4 hours, so they delayed my arrival time in Chicago

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... me. I studied Spanish for about 7 years in high school, but after my ... . Okay, so I get this major in robotics, and then what? I work for i

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Crosswalk, and the Student Center). For those familiar with the area, it ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact of such plays. As I took my seat in the large black box theater, I read

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  need is ID showing that I'm over 18 and some money to pay for the ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  him because he used to play for the Braves, which I'm a long-time fan of ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... animations that students have also contributed. For the sake of brevity and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different ... Penguin Stranded on Rockhopper Island series and as promo for the series

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... randomly selected from each floor. There was over $500 in prize money, in addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art ... following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  , and decided on this one for brevity's sake. Still, you must know, the ... of the river is now considered safe for swimming. Health risks remain ... :00 until noon. It will be in Johnson Ice Rink. For fourteen weeks the Final

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student ... . So they took all of the money that they would have spent on the kids

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  accepted. With four other girls, I squeezed into a hotel room meant for two ... company had been acquired. "My main hobby is making money, but now I ... shift in priorities, but I found myself yearning for the familiar

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  , had a picnic, and played “Red Flags”, a card game where players attach ... appreciated the grading scheme for the class—fixed grade cutoffs with 20 “extra ... extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that made the world truly mine. However, despite my love for writing and 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  and I have been working on it for hours upon hours. Basically that means we worked hard on problem one for 15 minutes, and then spent hours and ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  Winter Olympics. But these athletic games are not the only highly ... international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  who've played W101, I have probably like over 2000 hours in the game ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  New Year's Resolutions and prep my bullet journal for 2020 and January ... at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019