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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . So they get here, and let loose. It's to be expected, right? The ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... engaged with the other half. Chalk it up to being the first time in most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this ... . Enrollment limited to 20 students by audition. L. Toure 21W.762 Poetry Workshop ... : None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the ... this summer—I pass by the Lexington studio, then get even farther away ... stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... heading home to sleep, and by the time I got the door to my dorm open my cat ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  how to use the Hobby Shop’s water jet by creating something for ... semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is ... inspired by the Rome Pantheon and incorporated that in their design.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  seemed like we tried everything to get the reaction to happen on both sides ... to fly. I'll admit, I googled "get cape wear cap fly" to find this ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  by the building. The students began to harass the tour guide from their ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  is the time to get your my.mit.edu account and get started! Oh, and by ... me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... closed. But I digress...last Friday morning I was assigned to do the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  can get to Kendall Square by taking the Tech Shuttle, but in case you ... 's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to ... /Boston area, listed in no particular order and referred to by their stop on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  the clouds. By the time we’d stopped for lunch and driven to the ... about the point where my phone died, so I didn’t get to take pictures of ... , they hold weekly airshows to show off the capabilities of the restored

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  'm still off by almost 40% when comparing the total estimated spending to ... to end of "Definitely getting" list. The act of listing helps me ... by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  happening too. (flickr: D-lab, and google MIT-Cambridge Exchange) OH! THE ... ! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. (flickr ... a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. You can get so confused

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... all the way back to Next House, even though the doctor said that more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... : The general purpose fundamentals of electronics class. This used to be

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying-to-charm-the ... ="aligncenter" width="217"] the coat[/caption] But I couldn't figure out how to wear it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full ... -16 page comic individually. You get the theme here. And every week, our ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... ’ve been getting more than usual on the blogs lately, and it’s a trend that concerns me. So we’re going to try something called ReCaptcha on the blogs

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009