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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... holes of Boston architecture. We walk past a small park, and cross a ... weeds and laughs. The thin notes of a song glide across the sail, dark as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the ... undergrad and grad school, since a lot of success in science depends on a ... get admitted to any of MIT's graduate programs, and besides, you shouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us ... fluctuate. Some of us will be running CPW events on-campus, and most of us are ... hosting this AMA — click on any of our names to get a quick overview! Andi

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  're working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay, say you're me, and you're working on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... makes even a bit of sense, and throwing out various swear words every two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  at MIT, and I love it. Here are some of the classes I am taking or have ... about different "isms" (Futurism, Surrealism...) and types of poetry and ... ) and I like the result. I'll also be submitting some of the "poems" to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings ... wall, hovered in a precarious moment of unstable equilibrium, and slowly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  title wouldn't fit on the image below. Paper and pencil Antiquated, I ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or ... heading home. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  him even though we could’ve easily stayed home and worked on psets ... and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... , have returned, and of course, it is not the same, but it was still so

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  technology, two colors and a tiny gif of a man on a ladder. Well one example ... yellows and oranges, MIT has shed the appearance of normal university and ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing a bit of this and a bit of that—like Michael C. ’16, I did ... transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... sets in. Your beard has grown on you (hurr hurr hurr), and the two of you ... of November, and you justify it to yourself any way you can. "It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  of pressure on the upper and lower surface of a wing. 2:30pm- I run ... check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long ... companies. They also help with resume writing and cover letters. One of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  on your route to class and all of a sudden you come across an enormous ... on the role of institutions and political power on economic outcomes ... of '18. Seriously, three (!!) out of over a thousand. On first glance

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  same year. I didn't really know any current students, and I surely was ... room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... doors open the first week, a lot of people would come in and introduce

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  malleable and based on the vibe of the smaller social units. This appeals to ... also have subcommunities on each floor or hall with rich histories and ... have my freshman year home back, and it's more satisfying than my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  known for having one of the biggest fireworks displays and parties on this ... time on the 4th leaves me high and dry in terms of getting remotely ... how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered ... and I'd rather they took me off their calling list from now on. They

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  will be you must move on and should make the most of the school you do go ... full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... got to see applicants admitted and then watch them become a part of our

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014