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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  three trips, the first of which would be the trek from Next House all the ... and the river, and headed south towards our first point of interest ... Shuli and I had taken the first time, but instead of heading into the Fens

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... first, let me start with a little background. The question I get asked ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of ... the equivalent of posting the rough draft. I had a close contact with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  Pot Pie was stunning, sort of like the 100-page rant at the end of Atlas ... and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... the mature musk of well-aged Costco-quality imported vinegar, followed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10 ... copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  not graduate?  Freshman spring was the first period of crisis. I had ... official term.  In the fall of senior year, I got my first D in a mostly ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... of the syllables "schla" and "nguy"*.) Having a simple yet so complex

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The first or second day of ... (onstage), the time range of the costumes spans a millenia, and the whole ... matches my artistic outlet of choice--sewing! My now most famous work: the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  of the first things we thought about was this production, along with ... about one of these events that we were involved with and the experience of going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  calc ahead of time was a pretty big deal. The first day of calc was spent ... 's move on please.) The first day of physics was spent reveiwing derivatives ... Mathematics pset, and that's when all hell breaks loose. Like the first week of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  essentially the lovechild of an etch-a-sketch and a drill press. Using two dials ... , cutting grooves, notches, and all sorts of neat shapes into it. The "CNC ... mill. We designed our paper weights in SolidWorks first, the easiest way

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I ... beyond. My first UROP project is assisting in the creation of the first of ... in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  -colored shoes 6. She once wrote a 5-page paper on The Economics of Richard Cheese ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815... (examining file) the murder of a Mr. Burton Conner. (Pierce examines the file

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to ... head and roll some blocks of ice down the hall! because it's not the ice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  : Weekends at MIT are like the soft, cushiony slices of whole-grain bread ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... all of Thanksgiving with these three; I'm going to exhaust the gloating ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009