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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common ... long it takes most of your neighbors to drive to work. While they can be ... . Answering that question without more information can be reductive to your

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... Nature. The Times has a very good explanatory graphic: It's definitely ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... to be busy. It’s another unique thing about MIT, and we can’t ignore it ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... can't possibly expect me to live in McCormick!). You submit all of your ... chance to try to switch dorms. It's a rank/lottery system just like the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... place and time to discuss the production of their own independent design

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next ... want to run through a presentation, you can take advantage of this free ... semester. Sophomore Exploratory is usually used to try new things without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... , students can opt into different independent learning and research ... bootleg due to limited ingredients and skill, but it was still pretty good

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  science" and "Maybe it's ok to be this way").  You can see the ... to the public understanding of science and technology. It is also ... this fall: Gives a broad understanding of what it means to produce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  can easily use mathematics to derive both properties of those machines ... (it’s know to be a bad practice); it’s just a quick solution that could ... design is great because it can be easily expanded to more complicated

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... Boston, i.e. Cambridge), but it’s usually best to use the end destination ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  both how interdisciplinary it is and how methodical his process is. As ... same refractive index as glass. Even in person, you can only see hints of ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  can arrange some way for me to give it to you. from paolo a., 2:45 PM ... easier to store; I can just bring it inside classrooms, without needing to lock it up. They're much lighter, easier to maintain, and can fold down

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  copy) if you want to do your own digging: COOL DATA HERE Quick Numbers ... on Massachusetts Ave., a very short walk to Target or Hmart, so it must ... chose the superpower of being able to travel as quickly as a car, compared

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  much as home, but i missed it. it felt liminal to be there as it used to ... difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... going through similar things made it easier to talk about it and easier to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  scarier without friends. It can simply feel awkward fumbling to navigate places alone. Signs seem to point against doing things independently ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can ... ? Anyways!  It's the greatest month of the year at MIT: IAP, aka Independent ... friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this ... fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  . Thus, it seems a little unreasonable to impose certain wishes on this ... . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015