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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's snack, if you're interested). In my infinite kindheartedness to this year ... . Fantastic frozen risotto. Fantastic granola bars. The temptation to spend your ... birthdays if you're too lazy to plan a party or bake a cake or remember their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... is that we have to coordinate and rehearse the entire show during January and four weeks is not a lot of time to get a production up and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... had to keep going higher and higher and higher.... I must have been ... five miles (for a total of 18 miles). We didn't have to go up the Hill of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  , when the point of having all these quirky symbols is to defy tradition ... . Continuing on.. The half-moon, which I didn't have enough room to ... noticing you went to MIT undergrad to a lady at a coat check. So getting your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Where can I find parent info?

  We understand that helping your child find the right college is a daunting task and that many things have to be considered. We have information and advice that we hope you find helpful on our For parents page.  
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  have to go to work, you have to think twice about turning off your alarm ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found ... good at faking sick to your boss. I think that first-term freshmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... (recommendations?). Basically, it’s the time to become a Renaissance Man! – someone ... to share another project I have for the summer; I bought it as a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school ... 't portray yourself in your application as who you think MIT wants to see

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

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  ’t have time to exercise, so this year, I made a promise to myself that I ... Biomolecular Systems), I still have plenty of time to eat and peruse more HASS ... is made out to be, depending of course on your time management skills

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about ... 've let your life go to hell, so boring!" Not so!  Life is actually pretty great!  If you ignore the average 1.5 hour each way commute I have to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  'll have to come up with your own). By freshman year I actually knew I ... your life at all. But, high school, now we're talking big time. High ... kind of funny and I don't think it was intended to have this much of an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  Twirl and having to remember that you and your partner are called centers ... , and then you’re asked to partner trade and you have to remember to pass ... all five buildings. This was time-consuming. In order to actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... Political Process. Seriously though, it's really fun to take some of your own ... you why you're here at MIT in the first place. In my case, having

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as ... 't have to be. What makes that so difficult to process? People are complex

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  to form a community where we can learn and have a good time together ... a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... time with the team. I’m so glad I was able to get closer to some of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... nothing short of transformative. I've taken the time to indulge my unbounded

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... students throw their hat in the ring because they have nothing to lose ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college ... lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... 's stressful. those times, i wonder, am i still having fun? speaking of ... making friends. having the energy to talk to people used to be something i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your Physics ... ?! I e-mailed him to ask. "Yes," he wrote back, "I am happy to have my ... at the idea of having to discuss that academic disaster with the recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014