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• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind living in Burton-Conner is not checking out the ladies. Fortunately, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  a good way,  not always, but mostly. I'm still sorting it out in my ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... passed. In the beginning, it was like a full-blown middle-school crush. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  rent the car for two hours and split the cost between four people. I ... , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles ... Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... at me go"]four[/annotation] people. i spaced them out since i knew back ... reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  blue and white striped tent, rented round tables, brought out the outdoor ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  start off the summer, I conducted energy poverty field work in Patagonia ... Hey, it's been awhile since I've written here. Activation energy is ... . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  Obama's speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... technology. These lights can be fabricated in a simple molding process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... really considered in admissions (I didn't even send in my scores until this ... you have a 5 on AP Calculus BC exam, you can place out of 18.01 and take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  ."]two doubles in F entry.[/annotation] I recall that MacG rent (not including ... I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  45 minutes in length and are conducted by admissions officers (I do one ... things out before the information session starts. Have lunch in our Student ... "real" students that you can chat with and from whom you can find out the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... applied, as you might recall, because I applied out of spite.) It's a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... 've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching ... cetera. In the past 30 hours, I have: made my bed, eaten two grapefruit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will ... neighborhoods around MIT. In future entries, I'll answer your visiting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... 't have enough hours in the day - not enough energy - not enough days in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  , and even though I can see a horde of Psets slowly approaching in the ... as I stepped out of the cab, I could tell that everyone else felt the ... year. So far, I have: Moved into my new dorm. Maseeh! I live in a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... ), navigate out of the garage (ditto), and drive and park in rush hour Boston ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  sorted out. 1. Where I live I used to live in East Campus, an undergrad ... game but I can’t join in. Less grading would still be nice, but I ... graduate. And then I’ll be done: out in the "real" world, a "real" adult. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022