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• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... process for new data centers. Some days flew by packed, and others dragged ... : Rush out of the ridiculously muggy apartment. For reasons unknown to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot ... to use when working. This way, we all can work and display our work for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... Yellow Team identified was that for guitarists, it's hard to write down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of ... Model S reservation for a red 85D.  As a thank you they let me walk out of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This writing major is an option for students interested in science journalism ... designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... count. The result has been really quite nice for me. I'm easily

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... classes (recitations, lectures, labs) you have every day. Then, for each ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus last Saturday and for the past week I’ve been working nonstop on EC rush

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... .tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes ... challenging. I clambered over rocks, roots, hills and mountains for 20-30 miles

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I received over twenty entries, so thanks for your enthusiasm! :) (although tsk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... plus. We told her we'd be back on Wednesday for the WASH cluster meeting ... speaking about our projects for television. And that is the story of how we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes ... this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a ... food for the BBQ. 40 hamburgers, 50 hot dogs, just as many buns ... got in trouble for this, whoops), and we had full blown Moonbounce BBQ

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  discretion, for dinners or study breaks or even appliances for the wing to ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached for my cell phone and it was 8:11 AM and I had set my alarm for 7

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... train in Kenmore and go basically anywhere short of Rhode Island for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of ... in my account for free (quick deposit online costs $1.50), but it ... like she's making a beanie out of uncombed hair.) For me this includes a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007