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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  take the T (the name of the rapid transit system here) to get to Tufts ... subway lines, ticketing, and the general idea of public transportation, don’t ... Ave. Since I’ve only ever ridden on it a couple of times, I don’t have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  French House dinner - at this point, I don't remember what the food ... 't deteriorating as rapidly as my brainpower. 5:30am. Finished cleaning up, with ... helping the freshman? Absolutely not. Did I regret baking Sam's cake? Don't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  announcing the signs we've read in the application's entrails? I don't think ... 's him. And we have good, rapid feedback too. We meet most students we ... friends as the years go on. So we don't just have feedback on our decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . But I don't know. I guess that's also one thing I've been curious about ... engineering, like this job. Because like, what else is there to do? I don't want ... know? I just don't really know what other possibilities there are. CJ

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  whomever is in charge and see if there is leniency. I definitely don't ... also have heard of people who don't get placed, which is especially disappointing when they don't have alternate summer plans to fall back on. Another

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was ... itself. And then one of us, I don’t remember who, said what if the bed were made of nanobots and could make itself. And then one of us, I again don’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  last time?" "Mm? Oh wait, do I owe you another lasagna? But I don't ... tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... already taking too many HASS classes and I don't really need the credit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  culinary "competition" that Conner 2 always totally dominates. We don't get ... think. I don't think there's any way that a female could possibly enjoy ... ) -- This book is the origin of the name "Homer Simpson," although I don't see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  his house, and how rapidly it transported me to that period four years ... related to the saying “you don’t know what you have until you lose it

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  purposeful and some perhaps just due to the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19 ... ) will all be invited back in the spring, but I don't see how that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  said. "You guys will have to lead me, because I don't know the music ... a passage of rapid notes, a dancer's short scuttling legs. He was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  guess over there they just call it "getting dressed".) Don't get me wrong ... faster paced, and from day one they speak rapid Japanese at you (same as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  I'm sticking with what I know here, so I don't muck up the examples ... white water rapids are white): Maybe for the same reason clouds are white

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’t I?”. I don’t have a lot of friends back here in Milwaukee; I’m gonna ... below is the kind of entertainment that makes me feel alive. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good mindless reality TV series, but I don’t think I

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  outside of MIT. ...joined a beauty pageant. I don't expect much out of it ... all of that went out the window. But I don't stay up because I ... don't want to stop talking with each other and being in each other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stop, we saw something amazing across the street ... novel section, so she asked the clerk. "No, we don't have it. We ... like and don't like.) Well, wouldn't you know, two doors down from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  interesting to learn that baby scorpions don’t glow under UV light because they don’t produce the necessary fluorescent protein.) Surprisingly, we ... Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) – Brazil’s premier institute for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  needed them: The Care and Keeping of You before I reached puberty, Don't ... take the concept of self-help seriously. There are things I don't know ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  in the mail from the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA). On it were ... you don’t notice it. Every so often, a screaming flock of parrots dashes ... . I don’t. But anything in the interests of science, right? Together

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  rapid talking we’ve been doing to catch up. “Love you bye!” he shouts ... considered 22 credits instead of 12, but hold on. What most people don’t seem ... before, too. I don’t think there’s anyway for MIT to not be hard, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015