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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody ... "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... comic's readers to choose among MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  to all of Ring Comm and thank you for your hard work. The ring is ... classy event and one of the only times that the entire '08 class gets to be ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the ... stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the ... librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  together. So when you visit, you're going to get out of my way when I ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  you'll do is look to your right and see Killian Court, realize that you're ... you enough to save your life. Ok, thing two: When to visit MIT. Maybe ... totally hosed and be working ("tooling") all night, leaving you to your own

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... able to constantly stride around the city like I knew it so well. Hopping ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  of free food motivate you to put your head down and stick it out for ... How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  you're not going to get as much out of something you join strictly to ... undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• 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 / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... . So when you're cutting down on the things you're bringing, make sure to ... unique to you?     Passport/Visa You need your passport to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  (and all-around great guy) Paul ’12 to answer your questions. We’ll be ... so you can add your questions to the MIT Media Lab’s Backchannl feed ... /password we emailed to you). The video will come down soon after the CPW

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He ... to sculpt phrases ever so beautifully. Our playing went from

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s often very hard to wrap your head intuitively around degree-to ... support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021