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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... ’t.   On your left will be more of the same and, eventually, a train. Get on ... street and walk against traffic on that side of Massachusetts Avenue (turn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  processing. The current status of your application is now shown on your My ... to check up on the status of your application components. The ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  , we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my Mac

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... 's Day loong weekend to NYC* yayay so excited) -What the heck was going on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... , Friday, and Sunday! So, on one Sunday in October, eight or so of my friends ... the rest of us got off the shuttle early to take on H-Mart and Target

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... take an airplane the rest of the way. Hour 0: I am not on a train. I ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... I keep telling myself that this weekend, I’ll be on top of my work ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you ... , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  food on the table, on account of there being simply too much to place ... Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is ... entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  cilantro and cheddar on top and the cheese melted all over the starchiness of ... 'll tackle numero uno on my conspicuously block-lettered list of priorities ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up ... It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 ... ? Definitely. I think some of my friends might actually be spending more time on clubs/activities than on classes. It helps that there are hundreds of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  , even if it shows as previously received on Parchment, if it's not showing up on your MyMIT tracking page, there was likely some kind of issue ... our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G i ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... technical explanation of his door (the "iDoor") on his blog, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  go out. On the one end, DMX travels on top of a protocol RS-485. That ... signal. PWM is a way of varying a signal from completely on to completely ... way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may ... too. We have posted more information on next steps for deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018