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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  landscaped NW buildings that no one really ever visits on a whim. Living in EC back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... to enjoy the summer's day's walks to the NW buildings, today, this new

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  a river or going out to eat or watching a new movie or reading a new ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , except today in addition to all that I was excited about a shiny new CCD ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  remember to leave Adam a shopping list, so he could go to the store on his ... away from a new therapy. As long as it's related to the workings of ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD ... partnered to give a joint information session on both of our institutions. I ... the sunset. I'll always be a New Englander to my cold, frozen core, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  national average). From there he went to a New York law firm, then to the NHL ... one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  evening we went out on to the Mass Ave. bridge and shot a bunch of photos of ... visit a few weeks ago, I asked them to bring along my keyboards. As you ... artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... 's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... Square a return to Chinatown, where I bid Sam farewell Special thanks to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... interesting class and I think it's a really useful class to take.) Speaking of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  a spot on the wait list. Not all of those students will choose to ... Every year we publish a FAQ about the wait list. Students on the wait ... means we really like you, and you do not need to improve on your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to ... Every year we publish a FAQ about the waitlist. Students on the ... really like you, and you do not need to improve on your application. You

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members ... 'm pretty sure that you're a bit more likely to get a bid if you appear on one ... Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  room on that same floor. I saw 2 fellow pre-frosh for the 3rd time at a ... looked at the world through a new lens. I had changed. I no longer worried ... talked to a recent graduate, and we welcomed the 3 Central Ohio pre

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... we have enough information to make a decision. If we need further information or application materials to be able to make a decision, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... meant I knew what was going on in my Harvard classes. I plan to prioritize

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  other things). Living on campus again this fall, I got to feel a lot of ... senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022