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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  probably enter the T if you were travelling back to South Station. It is an ... now, if it is after hours you will need to walk around the building (see ... you’re hoping to make it to MIT, it should say Alewife. If you were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  . Now, granted, it is IKEA, so it's hard to tell whether it was originally ... wrote it to show people the way that I chose to tackle an electronics problem that was presented to me. It's not something that I learned directly

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... , almost everyone i know is in it. you don't have to figure out where you ... your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  to doing it. The entire process took less than fifteen minutes. And it ... . . . while, yes, I can still get it back (New Zealand allows you to file tax ... March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  lesson to everyone at the performance to highlight how dangerous it is to ... is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances ... , if you want to know who the Sexy Borskis are, here you go. Fainting is

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to ... wish we could ask you. It supplies depth to your application, and often ... my other interviews. My Dartmouth interviewer was so cool as to make it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget cuts, it's been canceled this year. http://iap.mit.edu/ [please note

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... for the class. The best part is I have the opportunity to take him out ... his busy schedule. Currently debating whether it’s too weird to ask for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  responded that it was “good.”  That turned out to be an unsatisfactory ... with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 ... ,  matter of factly responding, “I use the -1 to 1 scale.” You guessed it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... might simply chalk it up to MIT being awesome (which it is), but they ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... reaction. Source It would be a pain to manually draw recurring shapes over

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing Snowflakes Back It's finally winter.

  

  IT FINALLY SNOWED!!! Pictures etc coming soon to a blog near you. 3:27 PM - The snow has ceased. There is little to no evidence of the little snowstorm that could. BUMMER.

  • by Bryan
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  stylish that Ben had to buy one. We saw some pretty awesome bands ... getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... . Sunburns suck, sand doesn't do it for me, and the heat is just tougher for me to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I ... at writing something, and the deadline is so close I can feel its

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  Australia, from England to Mexico and got to hear what it is that everyone ... it was Connie and Shanasia, and if anyone is ever wondering what the illuminati thing is about for the class of 2019, it all started with Shanasia

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014