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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... our road trip, mostly inspired by the one of us that is not Jess Lin. We ... -Georges is to French cuisine as Citizen Kane is to American cinema: the darling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to ... further. Plus, all the CS classes seem so cool. And a major in CS is the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... could tell that I was in the wrong place and was probably going to have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... grocery stores. 1. Star Market: The closest grocery store to most of the ... -flavors-of-Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat ... think of it as a wearable yearbook. The 2014 ring is much the same way ... : On the bezel, the moon is in the exact same phase as it will be on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... are involved with and mine is parent programs so I'm probably the most

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... 'm officially LOCATABLE in the NASA Ames database! This is my email address that I ... some pictures :( I dunno, is it? In other news, it's totally not cool to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge, crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me ... asked Chat-GPT to name it for me. The inspiration for Somatic was that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... selection in Macgregor [annotation note="RIP to the other room assignment ... need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... boots. Where the wind blows and the snowflakes start to fall is only ... save them to the system, and move on to the next case. In addition to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  is about as easy to follow as the derivation of the Schrodinger ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  had no space left. Appendix A turned out to be pretty much the most ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the gender

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . The reality is that for most of us who are majoring in an engineering ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week. Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... deferred in December, I knew this had to be the case. I had given up any hope ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  . Anyway, the main point is that (1) thinking too much about the HASS ... is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... fruitless cycle of (1) going to Borders, (2) intending to buy the novel, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the ... problems in the first place. That growing up is this thing that’s inherently ... the carpet to stare at the dome, let me roll around in the grass and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023