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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  sinking feeling that I was able to shake off by taking a few swimming ... that just falls into your lap. As Block Island began to fade into view ... in the dock, my wandering thoughts continued to hang on each new sight

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... go through these cycles. Don't get me wrong; I am glad that I go to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... trip, I strongly encourage you to check your emails.   February

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure ... Latin, I’m adding a third language to my database this semester (and by ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester! These classes are limited-enrollment and available by special lottery only

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... ?) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were mostly lost to psetting (so what's new ... , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  Google, to the Kushal Foundation itself that was founded by pioneers of ... finally, working hard to improve and extend the services provided by Kushal ... [by Gilad Evrony '07] I think it was around junior year that it

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  brought smiles to all those who passed by. To share the happiness, here are ... Technology 10/26: MIT Zoo 10/21: Hack to the Future 10/12: New Bexley 9 ... @ MIT (with links to images): 12/3: Swinging Piñatas 11/22: Up the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  whole mess getting ready to be sad. It's like, you know when you're going ... get my heart broken in new ways. I didn't know I needed these things ... I’m going to get. Wouldn’t it be nice, living in Boston, visiting MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  Kendall and Central squares to obtain food and given me a new appreciation ... , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... to simpler times, where success for me was simply defined by good

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  no costs in using your credit card to buy that Arizona tea, why that ... people, they only get to see that early people arrived before them, but ... paper, I get to: Learn about the history of Italy Read about cultural

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  . You don't get something for nothing. In addition to rerouting your life, making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  explored your options in person, first? This is when you really get to learn ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... MIT.   Most of these companies are new to me, but I have heard of some of them before. Grove Labs came to speak at my 15.390 New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  . As each new float rumbled by, fistfuls of hard candies were chucked ... ] Part of experiencing a new culture is of course stuffing your face with new foods! What you see here is what you get: hot rings of deep

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your ... . Close one eye, bring the pistol up to your vision, align the sights with ... up the group. But I couldn't let it get to me. I tried to detach my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020