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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  , towards a greenspace outside Site 4, the new graduate dorm, to attend a ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... . My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... where you go) and to keep your eye on Matt's and Ben's blog for more info

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  PSETs are due on Friday. If you come on a Thursday expect you host to be ... you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at ... bucks a sandwich.. Well then we'll go to Cosi. I'll be here all week

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... providing more than 1,500 3D printers and kits as part of a drive to ensure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... a dank bread mold on the underside of a loaf hidden at the back of the ... Andrew Luck:     This is unquestionably a tribute to me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  willing to be distracted.   We strung a hammock from the ceiling me balancing on someone’s shoulders to tie the knots. A course 6 sophomore ... we didn’t have time to walk down the wrong basement hallway on the way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal ... ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico, funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... but it's a really simple thing to remember how to do and do quickly ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... generic name for soft drinks. If you go to a restaurant and say "Could I have a coke?" you'll be asked "What kind?" To me, this seems natural, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ... your head...but it's a good one!) To find out more about the Logs

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin ... design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on the ring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  matched, can I still apply to MIT for Early and/or Regular Action? A: On ... are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  homeland, I would lose a new life. To even imagine what the undocumented ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014