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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  five days I hung out with startup founders, venture capitalists, hackers, journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... 's historic centennial Moving Day celebration, so I'll always regret that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of ... neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming ... air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards ... to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage shelf above our seats, but I didn’t think I was strong enough to lift it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  -year students — a big, happy cloud of collective inebriation. I was one of those ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  “crusty’ seniors, my classmates and I are at a point where we have to make a ... and I must think long and hard about what our next step will be ... was college, it was a just a matter of choosing which one. But, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  My approximate CPW schedule Thursday liveblog 8:55am: I arrive on ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... burrito at Anna's Taqueria, I head on over to the UROP panel. There are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey, do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... with the EC contact information...what do I write/say when I email

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as soon as I unboxed them. The packaging was incredibly suspicious, with the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  Last spring, I took CMS.614, Network Cultures, taught by Petey. It's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... either some social bot, tool, or dataset + visualization for the project. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I ... like nightingales. Content with staying dry but wistful for adventure, I ... . Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I ... I talk to another TJ fanatic they automatically know what snacks I'm talking about. So either I'm super basic and like the things that everyone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... decisions. We've had many posts about decisions, but here are some that I ... Shuli J. '22 (2018): I knew I would be nervous when the time came, because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... , stupid frosh to make bad decisions. I've been sticking to a relatively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... better than quality. What I ate: After scoping the many different stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  . there are people graduating today that i've known since high school. and there are people that i only got to know this year or this semester ... another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... screen, you could see what I was seeing. I played around with a digital

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017