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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... Fireworks There are two places to see Independence Day fireworks. One is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  pencil maker- bamboo grows quickly, so using it instead of other types of wood helps the planet. Also, making useful things out of bamboo can be a ... saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  . Maggie: My advisor actually recommended it to me. The fact that someone ... , too, is very committed to its students. They seemed to make the students ... an answer. Sure, you can vary your assumptions or the specific method

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... middle of May. As an aside, it may or may not be of interest to note that ... -like reflexes to snooze it. Multiple times. The only things that stand between me

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated ... MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been much longer. Time doesn’t flow at its normal rate when everything around

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the ... MIT had to offer. So I was totally unprepared for how it actually

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it ... fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... sitting so close to me. I even love it when things go terribly wrong and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  quick incremental projects to please grant-making bodies instead of taking ... MIT, Jeffrey plans on using his fellowship to create technologies that ... are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... Hotel Pennsylvania and it was amazing. Most of the people I talked to were ... no matter what age you are, you can do what you set your mind to. These

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard and back to satisfy a late-night ginger soda craving actually, finally ... --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and ... /iPhone game where you match colors in a specific order to clear levels. It’s

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  can use on the test. At around midnight, I realize I need to somehow ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask ... and colors. I go to the printer and realize it's only black and white

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the ... Diana: it's a great study break and a chance to meet new people Bryan: i

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  it to the future projects within the company. She said this was a great idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... asked a fellow intern and I to update some production lists. It was a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  . According to the application, I could change my mind later, but it sounded ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... . That could be bad, right? What can you do about that? Well, to some

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  realizing how hard it is to write live while only using the top ten hundred ... people use to build computers]. (I've seen the space before, and it is very ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  resilience:   A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its ... think I'll miss. I am resolved to enjoy it as much as I can this last ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... you want to film. Format it to look like the scripts you see online, so ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  worse. Plus, it doesn't have to be goodbye forever--we can still be ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... . Now it's our turn to wait, excited and eager, hoping the applicants we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014