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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  on by the Charles Hotel here in Cambridge. Their plan is to turn ... geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would ... away), there promises to be possibly the best of the area's events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush ... miss the bus at this point. It takes 35 minutes to get to South Station, a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  on top of the Great Dome 13. Contribute to How to Get Around MIT 14 ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  get enough pictures! You'll have at least a week to send them in. Prize ... the pictures. XP I reserve the right to cancel the prize if I get less ... After reading my last blog, Jola from Poland also wanted to let me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  each other. for a while i tried to get the best of all worlds - i was ... very least i’ll get a better sense of what it’s like to work in the space ... subtext? and so on - and i think we’ll get closer to answering these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... to help protect other satellites by knocking harmful particles out of ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  and I'll get back to you when I get home from church. Ciao! ... "At 2:14am on Sunday January 14th Dr. Awkward managed to defeat the devil and regain their immortal soul (in coin form)." This means Mystery

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  when we have a suitable (usually foam) target. We had to get rid of last ... ...hello to David '09, Greg '09, Alex '09, Rachel '09, Libby '09, Jackie '09 ... it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  . Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  by simply saying that the response to "What's the bridge like?" is not ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  particularly disturbed by yesterday's events to contact the many individuals and ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... weeks before this. I wait maybe three minutes. Then I get to the table ... other side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of ... to a thrilling jazz concert performed by our own FJE and a local jazz

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023