Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  know, like a computer you put on top of a lab table. Revolving doors ... -up lines   Here's a picture from one of my favorite websites: (Note ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  imagine.  The Hobby Shop (one of the first MakerSpaces on campus) just ... about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  !! There is an awesome Mark Twain quote on the FPOP website: "Twenty Years ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... broken ways down and start something new. He was right. Now I'm back. It ... from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  over final plans on the way to the subway: Improv Everywhere's No-Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... designated stop, after the doors open and let on all of the passengers

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and ... glitches on both ends. And speaking of debugging Another kind of debugging ... find a seat amid a crossfire of paper when I was struck on the head. The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  three of us were working on getting the website and applications up. We ... like a lot of random thoughts strung together on a piece of paper. Kim ... all of us, and TIMtalks were smack in the middle of it all on Wednesday

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food ... (central mtg in Hartford on 9/19), New York (central mtg in Westchester County on 9/20), Pennsylvania (central mtg in Philly on 9/25), and New

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  I graduated, and on top of that, I’ve learned way more about the ... . Artists on Instagram. Some of my favorites are Kerby Rosannes, Lisa Congdon ... Tube videos of comedians doing their stand-up or being on talk shows. Current

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the advanced math education world.* Here's something that's going on: AoPS and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New ... about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  certainly been one of those. On the way back to MIT, we catch a particularly ... rejoicing. We eat lunch at a fairly new ramen place outside of Central Square ... stores a good number of Red Line trains, and so I stop to take a picture

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  samples (it's not healthy in a variety of ways). And no, SAT II scores < ... a 500-something on one of the sections. And he seemed to be doing fine ... few people on my hall were members of FIRST, especially Course 2 majors

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to transportation! And things to see! If you've got MIT on your list of colleges, you ... 'll need convenient ways to get to those places. What's more, not all of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... support penalty kicks as a way of deciding a winner. (Side note: Roberto

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  Oz. -The hottest part of our trip was, surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our first day of driving. The day that our air conditioner also broke down the most was, not surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  would be missing out on the big picture of the city or town as a whole ... it brings together an array of complex problems and a way of thinking ... to focus on. For example, my field of study is how education systems

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on ... attributes on a scale of 1-5: cleanliness ambiance availability of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022