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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

  

  winter clothes are relatively expensive, but with a few basic purchases you ... it also saves you money: the same coat, with different layers, is ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... Landon Carter) for the award-winners below, along with text from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  , but I covered it with my favorite flannel shirt because I felt a little ... /slept with my kitten until more meetings at 4pm. I was really tired. I slept ... assignments/homework, and it really made me feel awful. Cat naps with my cat are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over ... to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to respond

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my ... pictures of derping around with friends. I re-listened to the songs we ... how every experience I've had with them was all within the past year. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  emotionaly resonated with the significance of turning the ring: when my older ... on […] you’ll find your heart will be with the people who stayed up with you til dawn” So, to everyone I met, got to know, learned from

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  with Computer Science) Where are you, Adam? The Athena cluster in the ... ; stuff to do with finding connections between regions of the brain ... to London on Friday. And what are you doing with your first post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs ... the great folks over at Slideroom), to the academic enterprise (with ... of education, one which united practical facility with theoretical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  something else with my time. Many times, I felt like I didn't belong. College ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I ... - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  technical term, because he spent a lot of time talking with Galileo ... winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way Amongst ... ", or "exoplanets" - orbiting a pulsar. I've had interactions with both of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a ... life (and there's nothing wrong with that!) 2. Learn how they learn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it ... /no record grading system, I get the pleasure of being acquainted with ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , and across rivers with the MIT Outing Club (MITOC) (4) Eat BLT. The ... can take months), and it'll get you acquainted with the Pappalardo shop staff, who you'll be working closely with in 2.007 (the robot competition

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  Like Allan, I'm obsessed with taking notes. I'm also obsessed with ... 's making me feel bad about myself. So that I don't confuse (3) with (1), I write // in front of (3) -- those of you familiar with Java programming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world ... conductor singing along with everyone on stage, and the actors’ expressions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  computer aided drafter, and found myself with a 40 hour a week job. On the ... I digress, and I went off to start getting caught up with manuals. I ... , as I was doing with work coming from other offices. There was a point

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  wanting to try but not really trying, I can ride my bike with no hands. I ... sick. Like I said, the last few months were rough. The problem with being ... sparkle with intensity, and the stakes for everything seem higher, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  . My specific role in the project is to work with my postdoc to find ... because I'll be working with lab rats and that involves extra animal ... largest biomedical engineering lab in the world, with around $10 million

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold ... . Last night, Baker had a celebration with food, music, and our president ... , by learning the choreography you’re performing with your sisters. Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on November 30th, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to respond to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012