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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  halfway through term, and it feels like I just got here a week or two ago ... , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East ... ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  design a control system for a YF03 robot at Kawasaki Heavy Industries ... Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech ... work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  stressed-out over the SATs, ACTs, SAT IIs and EIEIO (a test only given by Professor O. McDonald), but you deserve a break today. Listen closely: drop ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  know, it's a bold blog structural experiment, but just have some faith in ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to ... countless times, I feel in a unique position to evaluate a movie about an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is ... of fencing practice, I would stumble out of the Z-Center with a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my ... the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color ... overwhelming number of requirements/GIRs that are on there. Now if we take a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from ... , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a ... online collection (aside from these two and a few others) is only viewable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  One year ago, Gosha and I embarked on a whirlwind IAP trip across ... [annotation note='though, this current blog stands alone fine as a travel homage ... part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you ... allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there a medical facility on campus?

  MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  -of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that living-learning communities provide. The office works to promote a cohesive
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  fencing are granted pirate status with a tangible certificate. Blogger Abby ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst