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• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  is the smallest on campus, but it's the one that I eat at most often ... first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year ... Although eating at Next House involves a 15 min march to the end of dorm row

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  after MIT, and doing a bunch of ‘lasts’ here at MIT (last DT dance show ... of their life, but at the same time…. I don’t want to say bye just yet ... about looking back at my pictures from CPW and that many of those people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  . I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I ... going through the same practice exams over and over again, but at this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... bought American sim cards at that point hence no cell reception, but we

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  organized on campus. There are four main clubs: G@MIT (Gays at MT) This is ... shortened (and not at all nuanced) way of putting it is that East Campus is ... . Come join our gay cults! We will throw* rainbow candy and gay pins at you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  job at TSR^2 (Talented Scholars Resource Room.) I mentioned this at the ... ’t think I’ll ever escape drawing at least one Gaussian surface a week ... at this point to try new places for dinner every friday night and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  -up was due at 21:00 sharp. At 20:50, I was putting last-minute touches to my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... , and at 20:57, the code was still uploading. I panicked some more. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... hold practice at the same time everyday, without worrying about academic ... at 5 and starting at 7. Still, I can’t complain. I know how lucky we

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . At a school like MIT, people are from around the globe, so I know I am ... landed at Logan. The whole week prior was us saying prayers that flights ... every night to update her on what major I now am looking at (It literally

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  initiative. Because I was involved a bit at the beginning, and because I think ... ) immediately below.   Last September, at the height of election fervor, I received an email about civic engagement at MIT. Passions were high on both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that ... pics for proof At the end of her show (which was great, as expected

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  include at least one photo from every month of the year, and they ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot ... , MEng '17, for a picnic. April Researching at the Media Lab is honestly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random bench in building 4 until my next class which was 6.005 at 11. Um. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I like writing. I like writing about issues at school, like mental ... , called a concentration. After my third semester at MIT, I had no idea what ... at MIT. Hopefully. Too good to be true? That's what I thought. There

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  at MIT. Don’t ogle at the amenities. Talk! REX Life ≠ Real Life. A ... . Visit museums at a free or discounted rate. Get a card from the Boston Public ... like the Blue Man Group at 1/2 the price through Student Rush or MITAC

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  (at least, not yet). That's not to say that the pace of learning isn ... psets and eating, (and sleeping?), it seems like I'm doing at least ... for music. For me at least, I feel as if my passions are what got be

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at this hour a fly's footfall would be distinctly heard. As you walk ... personals nearby. His head is bowed in concentration at the floor in front of ... name, Smyly the Juggler. And you wouldn't know it looking at him, but he

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet!  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the ... linearly at relativistic speeds.) (Again, the problem was to prove

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  brutal Ultimate Frisbee injury, you spent the first two weeks at MIT ... average of one serious leg/foot/ankle injury per academic year at MIT ... -ray facility at Mount Auburn Hospital. Junior year: the incident on the New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013