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  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  and expect promptness. I don't like sudden changes and I don't like when ... exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not at all where it usually is, but I know because I've put it there and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  , the 14-mile stretch I pounded out over Covid, the 5- and 7-mile loops I ... communities and art. I sought that out at MIT, found it in East Campus, Burton One, and the makerspaces where people tinker at their ideas late into

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  As we approach the lacuna between when decisions are finalized and ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they surrounded her, some standing and some kneeling, and sang “Do You Believe in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... is one that I've learned more and more throughout my time here at MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I love knowing that I’ve said something I couldn’t say before and feeling ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting excited prefrosh. I also love my dorm, Senior Haus, and I’ve written about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Last weekend was the Tetazoo fall camping trip, and my first time ... third floor of the East Parallel of East Campus, which is currently (and always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have populations of 5.3 and 8.2 million people respectively, so Hot Springs seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  definitely still meteorological summer. it was so warm last night"]come and gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman ... thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever phrasing you like more i suppose during the summer, fall, and winter of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015 ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone ... many symbols on it in honor of various events and ideas. Some ideas

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Chelsie Librun (Aero Astro) ´13, Nina Jreige (Bio Engineering) ´13, and

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of ... actually likes organic chemistry - and not just because I like drawing little arrows and dots all over my notes. Honestly, orgo, while time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox' big ... growing up I always enjoyed sports, especially baseball and hockey, I didn ... turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and i honor and respect the many diverse indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

    With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning ... got shorter, the angst got angstier, and those headphones got stitched ... people don’t like.”   “I’m queer and I cry and I hold on too tight

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020