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• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... later, when it came time to rank my dorm preferences on the housing portal

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... a transcript, but it is not true when it comes to challenging yourself ... an excuse to not try in your classes, but it is an excuse to go outside

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... made it to the Hatch Shell and instantly thought "Oh right Matt, sure ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a ... human face to it. The first thing you ask someone who hunts is what team ... spelled. And I think this is the correct way to spell it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add ... things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego ... surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass ... -run program called TechBikes, which allows members (membership is free) to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  fit in and publish what everybody else is publishing. Nor is it to ... it took just as long as anything else takes because there's no way to ... , sometimes it's hard to remember (not because the moments are painful, just

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen one), as I've attended LAW as a camper since I was able to and it has ... feeding me theory along the way, too. The ultimate goal of my UROP is to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I ... before. Once you learn how to read it, it is so much nicer to use and saves ... Python"]6.0001[/annotation]class recently ended, and it's time to unpack

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... it was nonetheless an enjoyable introduction to physics research

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

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  years, as opposed to the typical six. It is...pretty tempting. But of ... home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the ... have the money to pay for it), and the solitude of it all are things I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used ... really is just for the fun of it. But it’s a great opportunity to ... most out of CPW. While it certainly is a weekend to have fun, it’s also a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to ... researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  spelt, so it differs from place to place. All you really need to know is ... information people consider to be true about pirates is heavily due to Disney ... accidentally drank from the barrel holding Nelson's body. So it became slang to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  ”. (Entering Chinatown, there were three directions to choose from, which is only ... 's Chinatown is a nonetheless a fierce neighborhood to navigate, not to mention ... other dining room, theoretically, but Andrew Lloyd Weber is inferior to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... highway. It occurred to me that I ran 8 miles earlier this week and my legs ... of our energy slowly draining. What if I run to catch them? I thought

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... contradiction, MIT is profoundly global. Like the United States, and thanks to the ... community pursues its mission of service to the nation and the world. What

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017