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• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  that no instagram had on me. being in new york gave me a lot of whiplash ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  , complete with a "Chaplain" duck (handed out to new students by the chaplain ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new ... addition, there may be a tiny bit of residual toothpaste on the board. To fix ... influence how much I rely on having a large workspace to figure out my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  .00 a ride), the MBTA also runs buses (these cost $1.25 to $1.50 a ride ... Worcester to see a Nightwish concert. Taking the T is essential for getting ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... kitchen makes people stop on the way to their room and chat about their day

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  whole new batch of brass rats! Each year, the Brass Rat has a slightly ... ring's design can be found at the Brass Rat 2019 website--go take a look ... "! Ring delivery is such a milestone for underclassmen that I decided to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  have something good, I’ll copy and paste it to a new document to organize ... ’s because I found a newer shinier idea to latch on to or because I couldn ... the changes on the day to day basis. There just comes a time when you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  . It features a spinning disk that's SO fun to whirl around on. Honestly ... dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  thankful for having stumbled upon a new way to break out of food-related ruts ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  't really be paying to see. After a quick "coming attractions" replay of the ... New England countryside, I gladly agreed to take a bike ride with Ben ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  to a few new faces? So I asked the good folks in the MIT Class of 2012 ... on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... the end than I am to the beginning. As I reflect on the fact that I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  (EDT) on Tuesday, June 20, to give you time to consider this new approach ... : making a separate blog post on that later on). I got to McDermott Court ... and a new community needed to form; Pilot 2021 was our first attempt. In

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  point to staying on the waitlist..." And From NY wrote, "A question ... action would be if you don't meet the criteria to apply as a freshman -- e ... making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to ... ). On a quick side note, I've noticed that a lot of people on tours love ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  this, a lot of the stuff I feel like I should takes notes on are ... lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a ... -around better note structure than 5.12, but because the class tries to derive a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015