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• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Boston Marathon has only been cancelled once in its 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record-high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the pools. i remember milling around the locker room waiting for eleven o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the teaching pool. i remember cold shower water and cold air, and i remember

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , water, and debris pool in the dips and valleys. The wind is still now ... wondered, wondered, wondered. I thought about the vastness of the world, the ... windowsill with a novel and a hot cup of chamomile tea, and watched the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  our new bloggers! Class of 2014 Anna Ho was born in Singapore but ... and is a world-class mathlete. She attended the IMO Training Camp and ... independent living group. She's traveled the world while at MIT, with a MISTI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret ... total power, apparently, is the highest in the world.) "And the bus doors

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  into a cram session in Talbot Lounge with cups of iced tea to stay awake ... singing in public (karaoke on the Random rooftop with a pool noodle fight ... into tiny pieces, stir the cup, and add hot water. Put in a packet of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  pool. Now consider the following: Gender Equity. Have you taken care ... pool? Geographic Diversity. Have you ensured that your admitted class is as global as your applicant pool? Intellectual/Academic Diversity

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  steak and shake while playing pool and talking to brothers and other ... blowing into cups. There was also a great performance by the MIT improv ... professors. Maybe your type is playing pool at 1 am with a refreshing milkshake

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  an advertisement for a World-Cup-sponsoring phone company who has ... regretted going to Berlin during the World Cup finals because it was so darn ... , factual World Cup itself? Or even better... ZINEDINE ZIDANE'S AUTOGRAPHED

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you're a fan of alpine skiing, the World Cup finals are being held in ... good enough. This is one of the world cup ski slopes! "pista Copa del Món" means "World Cup ski slope" in Catalan.[/caption] Are you sure it's a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  evil pumpkin vibe it has. Third + fourth week: cups Next up after ornaments is cups! This is another big jump in terms of technical skills. An ... , but to make a cup, you blow a bubble, transfer the piece from the pipe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  ?” I look up and he’s holding this cup. So I’m like “Yeah, that’s me ... accidentally made this extra cup of coffee, and you order coffee a lot so I thought you might want it.” So I got a free cup of coffee. But the coffee

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  be a long day. That summer, I worked at my local pool as a cashier ... entrance to a marvelously shitty pool), and I did get my fair share of ... pool, it was exceptionally hot out all the time, and most people still

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  into the world! Look how beautiful it is! Plus, I know how much I learned ... us to have access to mentoring in this way. Also, I'm making a cup. I'm making a cup!!! Please regard these lovely pictures of my cup (well... I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  the applicant pool there were a great many incredible students whom we ... on to do terrific things for the world. We will have more news about

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool ... and Dominican employees as well as guests from around the world. These

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  , confusion, and shame. The world felt...different? "This was the year he fell ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  dropped out). After weeks of first-world agony over which top ... durian, because afterwards we went to Singapore and experienced a "Durian

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025