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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  -shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature ... feel with the fact that we're almost right on the equator. Fortunately, the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert slackers since time immemorial, an oasis of idle leisure amidst the dessicated hours between 12 and 5 pm. Recall that the most cherished hallmark

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that ... things. I present to you as a case study the company LiveScribe. So this ... -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... those dimensions). MIT is getting tricky like that. Much like the leaves

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the same experiences. So if you other prefrosh have attended the dorm

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center, claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I was perusing The Tech yesterday evening when I happened upon an article

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the comments. So go back and read the comments! It's like when your favorite networks try to convince you to watch reruns during the summer except you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  commemorates the Autumn Equinox (which will occur almost exactly when this blog ... green, now illuminate like fire. The forest transcends mere vegetation And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the first Visual Arts @ MIT post, we talked about the various extracurricular

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019