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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  the nerdy adventures of Laura, Rick, Adelaide and Mason....West Coast ... cable cars. Do you know how cable cars work? One of the very first things ... let go of the cable, and stop moving. Well the cable car museum is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... 've set things up so that each class "works" one of the formals and puts in ... worked in the kitchen helping our (amazing) house chef, and some of us

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a ... and myself. So my first semester at MIT, I spent a lot of time figuring ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  closest of friends and familiar faces you still haven't learned the names of ... drunk for the first and only time in my life Watching leaves change on ... their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span between 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your ... slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only ... to remind myself of that policy less and less. The thoughts I silenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  and it was the first time she had been on a plane. Lots of adjustment ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  perfectly acceptable and will not be cut off- just check the pdf preview of ... reading - I left out one question and went ahead filling the answer of the question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the ... Controls II- One of the most fun and practical of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... him during our first lecture. He was trying to demonstrate the effects

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing ... weeds and laughs. The thin notes of a song glide across the sail, dark as ... And birds go flying at the speed of sound To show you how it all began

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of first borns. The topic in question? Bathrooms. Apparently bathrooms are a ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... ="600"] i learned the "stretch and squash" principle of animation by ... reading it this summer and enjoyed it thoroughly. the book consists of a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... forms and choices, I wish you the best of luck. Please reach out if you ... would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  movie (Hackers) and fell in love with the concept of Computer Science. A ... , spending the hour a day of internet time he had learning syntax and the ... exactly what I wanted to do. The perfect combination of math and problem

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  the city and vibe, visit a ton of museums Clean my room and finally ... and procrastination, when I saw the listing. It seemed perfect: all of the things and fields I wanted to learn more about, coupled with some of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  spots and 70% of the pool has great numbers, your pool is going to have plenty of kids who have the passion and the match and the scores ... away from college, and I'm no expert on the parent side of this process

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  first point; CPW is a smorgasboard of smorgasms*, and you should have them ... , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and ... . I still know and talk to a number of people I met during CPW, whom I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010