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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to ... blue: I’ll be on the Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago, then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  -before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze-dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks. Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... EHS training Yeah, I'm excited to finally have a UROP. This was my ... -ed service fraternity. It's a lot of fun. I have to go to the meetings, even if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... 'm Englishly allowed to say that, but whatever), in case you haven't been on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... peanut butter on them? That's a well-rounded, nutritious breakfast. See ... a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... this world that you are meant to do. For those of you on the waitlist ... very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... on an even more ambitious project: converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass ... shifting +/- signs until a convoluted formula yields a green checkmark on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... a second semester senior in high school. What on earth do you guys

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010