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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten ... Jordan’s Furniture. I recently found out about this place from a couple of coworkers, but “Beantown” is a replica of downtown Boston entirely out of

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... Friday to Tuesday. I found myself picking up a book, Red, White, and Royal Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the

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

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  together. As a result, MIT is a wholly collaborative and kind environment ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and kind student body rather than an easy school with a competitive air. Is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It's a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at ... anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  . Enough said. There is a huge community of local mappers who chart out ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be ... someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... about you as a result of reading your essay? Student:  I'm not sure. Me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this transition and my reasoning behind it, but it’s a little long and a little

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh my god) 2 months??? 1. I’ve been stress baking a lot and made a recipe

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could ... [annotation note="when I was twelve years old, I wrote a 60,000 word Shugo Chara ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions ... honesty and integrity with which B.A.T. wrote, which values I hope (and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater, I had had a fulfilling-enough career, and if choosing MIT meant that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... CPW, our incredible house chef Gerry makes a batch of his world

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the ... . That's ~22.5k new cases, with an average response, from a human, in around a day. You can see the massive spikes at the EA and RA deadlines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new environment, and many other concerns. I’ve even received a few questions from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their Own Startup!!!!!! (Note: this is not a general MIT ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view ... river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... stressed out too, but I have always used blagging as a study break anyway (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... a seat. Of course, for Jasmine and I, really early actually meant so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015