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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  promised to sign "one if by land, two if by sea" to indicate from whence the ... 't take the opportunity to explore what's around me. It's really easy to get ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  biodiesel that can fuel MIT's shuttle buses. The money will be used to ... must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... . Instead of wasting this byproduct, Biodiesel@MIT wants to convert the UVO

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... .   That's the plan, anyway! Please feel free to come by and say hi ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  and elevators? does the act of getting from one place to another utilize ... past the laundry room/TV lounge/gym, get to my floor, and walk all the ... they're so open. You have to pass at least one lounge to get to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... around the courtyard and running around on the castle walls. I tried to get ... interesting, I couldn’t help but get distracted by the ridiculous number of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  , and why all of this means that you will be able to get the scientific ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... Institution, but the rest is open to the general public. So, if you knew what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  wanted to focus on their experience in the classroom by asking them about ... by describing the feeling as magic. He explained how he struggled to ... to continue playing the piano and pursuing his music passion by taking

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use ... while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me--”what?”--the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to ... . I get to aim at one simple thing, the bulls-eye, and get to ignore ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole ... first to enhabit the newest dorm at MIT by the fall of 2011. Check out the ... was loved by all who graced its halls. One day in 2006, the MIT

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... Authority which cover the region, helping commuters get to work in Boston and ... discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  've got the makings of a good bunch. It's kind of interesting to get a sense ... 're expected to finish your requirement by the end of sophomore year, but there ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  enough time to calmly get [annotation note= "I spent the last week of IAP ... the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it ... the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  by after my internship to watch the presentations. I missed ... to get back into the groove of the MIT/Boston entrepreneurship ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  the class. I was startled when my row was asked to stand up and get in ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of it, but by the time I remembered, it was all gone. Instead, I give you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... /relationships. Overall we enjoyed getting taken back into the story. It was a great way to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019