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• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] Before I got into MIT, I was torn by a dilemma - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by-floor system based upon class rank and whether you've lived in a double or single the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A ... derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  Laura had an interesting entry a little while ago about the Mario Bros. hack, and a subsequent one answering people's questions. She answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture from top.roommate?i have few questions- 1.how many students(UG) share a ... and girls /they live in a single hall but different rooms.are they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... blogger as a sophomore has its perks. These freshman-year thoughts just sat unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  Internet! Long time, no talk. Why such a long time and so little talk? Well, there has been a lot happening, although in some ways very, very ... extremely quickly. Here is a list of blog posts I meant to finish, to no

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  Oh, you all thought you were getting a blog post from me? Not today ... cold and snow.) Here's a guest post from Sondy G on MIT's six independent ... 's a post on MIT Independent Living Groups (ILGs), another alternative to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her through a summer program last year and we've since bonded over concerts, good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little ... switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear ... pulled up. Survive bear encounter: check! A couple minutes later, we ... counterclockwise with a bit more gusto. Nothing. "Well, that's interesting," he said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright-eyed, eighteen-year-old baby boy was born. In his future lies a childhood, with all its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers." _______________________________ You may be surprised that MIT has a thriving HASS (Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... assist the shelter, called Ma-Sevana, by a writing fundraising letter. But

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a ... classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part ... ."]problem set classes and project classes.[/annotation] A problem set class has

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022