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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  two weeks notice prior to your arrival, we've already begun taking ... In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I ... , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are ... next weekend—they wanted to get away. I had nowhere to go; this is my ... money stopes coming in from the football program, we will have to get it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  to handle their newfound "empty nest syndrome" was to get literal pet ... After getting the chicks, my parents set to work building a pretty massive ... farm to get another set of four chicks. Once all eight of them were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let ... attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  . "Sometimes the custodian will hear it crying or scratching to get someone ... MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  . You're right over the wing and get to witness the beauty of flight ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... WILL recline their seat as far as it can go, the person to your left will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  turned to my friend Google. I found: A nice video story about Fleisig and ... charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  get to know the tools that they'll be working with later on, but I think ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... my mom doesn’t have a timepoint to run catch they get to hang out, my mom gets to learn new recipes, and my dad, my brother, and I get to eat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That ... want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  individuality and how you choose to represent yourself, and your door is perhaps ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You get to be that person who always has a quippy remark locked and loaded

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... traffic around them and were trying to get the interest of freshmen who hadn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a link to it in the comments, or by emailing me your file. My email address ... favorites on New Year, so get me your entries by midday on this Sunday

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

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely ... opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college ... session of Physics, Calculus 2 never ceased to turn your world upside down

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  retake 006 instead of taking 6.034 since I want to get credit for 6 ... that. Pros: Get some real good honest to god design teaching. Cons ... blogposts. I'd like to take writing classes to try and get me back into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade ... opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what