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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... 's really not that hard.  As the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  SHAKEN: And that was my New Year's Eve. My first adventure of the new ... consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in ... on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of ... MIT Origami Club taught students the art of paper folding; those present

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed ... leaves, and evidence of beavers in the forests they shaped (see below ... first time. Its electric motor lasted exactly the entire hour we rented it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the ... that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the ... mailing list of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association, or (SUMA). I ... @mit.edu   ~ For you first-time or novice traders, come try it out! See the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... 't remember what the 5 wits were. Fantasy, who loved to dream of castles and crowns. Estimation, who was great at estimating the amount of pizza she

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  of time doing this. Too much time. As a matter of fact, the reason I ... middle of the hell that is the wait for decisions, I really suggest to not ... interview, there is really no more you can do but wait. The decision is out of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... defines as the “sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth ... residual sickness, my last sneeze was during the writing of blog post and I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  attempt to rectify my wrongs of the first class (aka the Snowman ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... which again by the way IS REALLY FREAKING HOT, and the first time

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... view of  the Charles River during the Fast Light Festival and it also

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  Thornhill of First Holiness Church and the Cambridge YWCA     ... publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... ; the crowd outside of city hall  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in spices, so I took a page from the book of Ling and bought a 69-cent ... backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by ... is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes aired last night. ABC describes it like this: The opportunity of a ... give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren ... Library. It's one of MIT's several libraries and it is one of the more

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved ... possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you ... individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts ... imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... , so it’s possible that, under the stress of economic insecurity, my ... , or perhaps the more accurate statement here is that I view the process of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023