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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  's much easier to jog down than to jog up, so in about a minute and a half I ... Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... lots of sprockets and tensioners and shifters; I opted to buy a wheel

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have to buy 500. I've also asked several hallmates to let me see if their ... , so it was also time for my laptop and her beloved case to go. [caption

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  lists. I once scored a USB floppy disk drive and some software while ... (which you absolutely loved), and you thought to yourself, "Hey, I bet that ... you just got bored, and you decided that you want to make some music or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  solution to lowering carbon dioxide emissions and reducing fuel costs at MIT ... -fry the French fries and onion rings that college students love ever so much ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  and to put over beds to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes off. Can we use ... plants grow quickly and their roots stabilize the soil. If we created the ... 's already a device that does this, but it's much too expensive. 6) Charcoal

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  , and interesting to create. trusting the process was hard, but as a ... committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  introduction to the medium. Your intervention will begin and end the story. But ... to him for a few moments, then he went and sat down. Two hours later I ... on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative

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

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... something to offer and something to learn—it’s how every class year gets built

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  created more bubbles. Cory drained and refilled the bathtub to slowly lower ... from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The ... can exploit to make higher and higher temperature superconductors. At

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  things to consider when I applied to college. And so the list begins ... , and that's great. Also, feel free to comment with other things you find ... 'd worked very hard like many of you, and wanted to continue my education at a

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  proven to me that I have the energy to write them, and in my last ... ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  the Bell where Zach Morris joined the quiz bowl team but then the token nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... -shirts, and other MIT paraphernalia, primarily because I'm much older (and well ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became ... making friends in general, I’d say that it does require effort. You have to create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the ... to perform because they're emotive and have some kind of intention in ... called MirrorTube to mirror and slow videos to 0.5x speed, as well as split

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... once) but it was hard to spend much time with as many people as I’d hoped ... creating my schedule pretty much the moment this year’s events leaked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019