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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  ! Hang up the phone and drive. Lobby 7 and Lobby 10 can be considered ... biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  .001 and jointly scrolling through MIT Confessions. 2.001, a core class on ... lounge as the night wears on, sitting on sofas or the carpeted floor, racing the clock.  My favorite part is not simply being finished, either

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  , "All of the MIT-run food places on campus have vegetarian (and usually ... students, are international students in the Class of 2010, and about 6% of those international students are from South America. You can see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  until the night before, 20 page research papers and two weeks' worth of ... bowl of goldfish crackers and Conan O'Brien on in the background. (He ... transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  grade for the second midterm. cue instant panic and regret mode...and let ... , i got a 12-month lease with six friends from my floor, and being able ... practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  students a discount on all three of these brands, these will be the laptops you see the most of on campus. Each has its benefits and each has its ... modeling software. The air and the Macbook will be really laggy. Dell A

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  "Pomp and Circumstance" on the kazoo. We did arrive at Charm School ... today. Mitra mentioned that on Monday, we have registration day, and then ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... you design the processor the software runs on, and then you try to ... 's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... just the right amount and that would be enough.  You are allowed to ... ? this time, i’ll make the summer count  this time, i’ll be louder   

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  , at which point we all piled into the elevator and proceeded to cheer on ... , especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and ... (Burton-Conner used to be separate dorms, Burton and Conner, but were joined

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know ... hit the mat. Talk about being knocked into next week. You win this time ... work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  -12 people classes for all of the GIRs. ESG can be as much or as little as you ... ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it ... the teacher just said, you can just ask right there and then. 7. Dave

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember ... Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... for the first time, and filling out that neat little form listing all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my ... got back from a year on leave from MIT. I live right near work, and a ... the bills, and I wasn't happy anymore. I (Still) Have An Amazing Cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  are supposed to be on vacation, but whatever. The exhibits were pretty ... group turned this tradition into Bier and Kuchen, but I can't imagine the ... graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  ball moves so quickly that you can’t see it) on the other end of the ... team matches up with a person on the offensive team and is responsible ... defense in the vicinity of the basket, the offense has an advantage and can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stupidity and evil can be hard to distinguish, especially at the thick ... , where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... be on the top right.” “I don’t see it. All I see is the sun. Do you see

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  on the time commitment, albeit somewhat less rigorously than usual, and ... ; and the second, a class on musicals, did not have a quality of ... chance to start reading again, and to reflect on the semester which had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  proteins, staining them with fluorescent antibodies, and imaging them on the ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  ) and the digging of these wells can be a very dangerous operation. Muti ... dirt and plants and bugs and debris that lives/rests on the bank of the ... the rainy season, it looks like this, and residents travel on paths such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016