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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  docks and benches to chill on, but if you're more of an active person, the ... slice of pizza and some pastries from Bova's Bakery and hanging out there ... still and beautiful :') 8. Fan Pier Park Big, uh, fan of this one. It has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break ... could try (and likely be unsuccessful in) compiling a list of activities

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2 ... of me playing one note of Trogdor on Guitar Hero II. The entire song, including the wild scream of "...and the Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiiiiight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the ... temporary tune out of the nerd talk going on around me. But there are moments ... heart sings at the sight of acid-base reactions and descriptions of SN1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so ... on in admissions, and we never set aside the time, or the money, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops ... after meeting for any one of a variety of activities. I am sleeping and ... five people on a stage, making music, having the time of their life, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  shirt from someone else and we’re on our merry way. … and in true MIT fashion, come home a few hours later and camp out in the basement of our ... and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  ...no joke. But I think the fact that we can name any precise location on ... -2 and 8-2 don’t exactly line up, or that most floors of 11 are awkwardly ... indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the ... , you get unlimited rides on the bikes around Boston and Cambridge. This ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  .009,[/annotation] which sucks a full 3-4 days out of my week on average, and my ... , so I left Cambridge and went home to recover. With just two days of ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... Hampshire! Not all of us can go on fantasy pirate cruise ships, so we all ... /math focus, and not having any research opportunities. A year ago, my comment

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  , working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of ... that I could spend all of my days lying on the floor and staring at the ... I’ve heard it’s a lot of work (it’s also 1-5pm on Wednesdays and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how great an idea this was without making any progress, I just gave up and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ....) there is nothing like taking your hair out of its ponytail and washing off ... , and subsequent coordination of shirts and sweaters. Then, we have to ... support before every meet, and we like to keep it on because it keeps our

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  seemingly endless expanse of liquid lactose and my milk-loving self is ... has learned the art of maintaining a balanced and fulfilled life in ... and a half weeks of volunteer work, friendly introductions, REX events

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• 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 ... was a simulated base attack, and some of the cadets were "injured" at ... we needed to go pick up, so on top of having a lot of responsibility

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

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  forward to the rest of the class. And I could go on. I could tell you about ... fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of ... there were five of us prefrosh who all wanted to try it and didn’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you'll find a gorgeous trail coiling through crests of evergreen trees and surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  of certain memories. So far, I’ve lived half of my life in China and ... Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011