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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week ... : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston ... /BU Harvard Square - Grafton Street Pub Central Square - The Enormous Room

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit a creative/maker portfolio as a QuestBridge applicant?

  QuestBridge applicants submit portfolios using the same system that ... required. To learn more about the different kinds of portfolios you can ... . The deadline for QuestBridge applicants is November 1, and fee waivers
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I really become an EMT?

  If the psets aren't keeping you busy enough you can become an EMT while at MIT!
• FAQ / Academics and research

  When was MIT founded?

  Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...something. The hacking arena. The ingredients: ideas, sleeplessness, Red Bull, and ... the best cookies I've ever had. Rocking the Oculus Rift. Hacking, as defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The last movie Tony Randall appeared in was Down With Love. This weekend I was troubled with the terrible dream that Bob ... it for three months! This is like the time Tony Randall died and I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial[/caption] [caption id="attachment_90797" align="aligncenter" width="507"] the commuter ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. the apartment looked like this:   this past semester i ... lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the ... floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually build according to LEGO instruction manuals; As soon as we completed the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  the weather. I actually wear flip flops until the first snow, so yes. 8:28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  -kg mollusks in each jar. The local dumpster cat gang has raided one jar ... out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall and I were assigned? Force Gauge. Excellent. The lab that most people

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day ... another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008