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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  which stretches seven miles from the Boston Common all the way down to Franklin Park Zoo. Before this semester, I'd only been to the Public Garden ... tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  ’re unfamiliar with campus and need to orient yourself.     The evening of July 9 ... tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the ... to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;p></p> <p>For some reason, people are often surprised to learn that MIT ... , we often just pull out our ID cards and read off of them to avoid ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• 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?

  

  The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms overall. The plan was to create some questions and disseminate them through

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... scene. Autostitching can be used to make panorama shots and even "mini

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a Class 1 storm), the foreboding weather phenomenon that caused Boston to ... measure. In response to this announcement, MIT officially closed at 3pm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  . We discuss how much sleep we’re getting/not getting/how there seems to ... sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only ... too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  —as a much cheaper alternative to 16mm. Soon thereafter she collaborated ... gathered to recognize and remember Glorianna Davenport's 30-years of research ... upon using media to understand what people see and experience. She

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  According to Wikipedia, mad scientists are "typically characterized ... unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies." Ok

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  beat the Yankees, my friends and I (and pretty much all of Boston) ran to ... too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve this year? teach nance how to publish his blog entries so that i don

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Nazi prison camp, and was premiered to 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and their guards. This entry is a response to two excellent comments from ... performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  ) California kid who was told in 8th grade that I needed to take five million AP ... read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments, just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006