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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  or being at MIT or something, so her parents went to it. Realizing that ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  , The World According to Garp by John Irving. 6. Gearing up for the ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the ... to figure out a way to mesh these two ideas together, wanting to marry ... thought about just letting MIT go and 100% committing to my dream of being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  , before she even knew she'd be able to use the R&D pub. for the first ... would have enough CRTs and monitors, and if it would even be possible to ... response to the performance, and many wouldn't find it to be palatable or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... I think this is a really fun alternative way to spend IAP! (and Reason ... you an other way to spend IAP, I don't think I'm off the topic too much

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this IAP I’m proving to myself that I’m serious about it by actually

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  *much* I cross out items, especially when compared to the way Danny ... like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  . I learned the charming way to “dab” (not wipe) my mouth. I learned the charming way to flirt. It turns out that my nerdy pick up lines ... outside world as they are at MIT. I learned the charming way to shake

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... this is to say that I'm taking those classes now, and it'll be an awesome

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... to take care of. the implication being that if you spend all your time ... think would be interesting to look into on my own time, i'll draft an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  -a-mile bridge all the way to MIT — that it was basically walking to hell.  One ... , the pledge class of ‘92 getting hauled to jail by Boston police, and ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  people who are taking more classes than this, and still find time to be in ... to be spending more time doing work nonetheless. Maybe there is more ... for something to write, or a new way of seeing one of the stories I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  thin plastic shatter, so did my heart. For I knew that to be the end of ... REX to lure prefrosh who may be interested in living there in 2025 and ... ="90435" /] Sad cat was distributed to our class by the 2024 Class Council last year

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool ... friends on their way to interviews with some of the world's biggest banks ... article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get ... , interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  often dangerous -- a stark contrast to the American idea of them being ... granted, and it's been a useful way to bridge the gaps of our cultures. ... completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of "higher education" to be truly educated, to approach issues of rampant ... series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... Qualiflyer; he was one of 3 students who had to be taken to the MIT basketball ... was Aurora. Aurora is 8, and has wanted to be an astronaut since she was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015