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• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  MBTA silver line, to the red line, and all the way home... Unfortunately ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school ... 't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... reminder to stop and smell the flowers, I’m living on cloud nine. ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School ... supposedly impressive. Probably half the problems were just to take logs (the ... about (yet), caught an elevator* to the 6th floor of the Kavli Institute

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  or three more times on Max, and I will continue to have this as the ... (more details to come) and read it on and off throughout the spring. It is ... , and I got to see the Boston Marathon. Des Moines, Iowa - Hell on earth

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... the other with a hammer until something bends. I remember going on a ... .096: blacksmithing, and How to Make Almost Anything. I got into all but the last one. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... , I led the freshman over to a whiteboard, and stood on a couch while he ... sprinkles and placing them carefully on the layer of icing, while talking to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... , Climbed to the highest place, On every fire escape, Restless to climb. I got ... on the fence about whether to go, let me just say this: my little

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  first vector, somewhere, making a line segment. Then draw the second ... vector on every vertex except the lower-left one. (If I drew it starting ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene ... about an event that occured on Friday. This past Friday, the First of ... have not read the series, but I am aware that this movie is supposed to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  hot frantic kitchen where the concentrated afternoon heat fringes on ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... out to be invisible until right after everyone leaves the dinner table

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  even took it. That means it's impossible to have an F on your first ... FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT The other side to that is that you can't get an ... well that the only thing you got was a 0 GPA and less time to meet new

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  ...* My decision to pick MIT over Rice-Baylor was based largely on the fact ... some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... the MCAT). I thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter - since some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  Friday in Venice, we woke up and got on the first available train to ... has a picture of my second cousin's dog on it and the other one cost 2 ... be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  hypocritical of me to complain about that. The panda on the HSSP shirt was the ... other commitments at the time, I was able to be pretty focused on being an ... would need to take. The shirt is a bit on the smaller side, so I actually

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see ... verb to match the subject. The same thing happens when you answer the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008