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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... ? Eternal freedom. No homework. Staying up past midnight every night. The ... this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  couch, and put my feet up on his desk. The downside, I guess, is that I ... communications industry. We've been proud, and grateful, to call it our home for ... yourself to risk playing the alchemist and trying to cook things up to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... made sticky notes,” said Marie, who added that the premise for the ... possible responses from users. In the end, they came up with 173 categories

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  , but 6 weeks is enough to get people excited for classes to start up ... help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  up for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. [Please ... The campus -- and, indeed, the world -- is abuzz with excitement for ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  encouraging environment unlike any other that makes up for those moments of ... on the fence, I hope this cleared some stuff up for you! My DMs are ... on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  friends for each trip. I also ended up getting a ton of photos ... of disappointing. Since Kylee and Oris were still up for more walking ... Riverway and the Back Bay Fens, near the Fenway[annotation note="T stands for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... previews for movies that are coming out soon. Two of these movies probably

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  i could end up in—so what? why should i care? i'll never know for ... a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for ... I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  up for this session - which, while small, was still twice what had ... contagious. Afterwards we broke up onto the bleachers and answer questions for ... Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  -straight-on-the-subway-with-two-strangers-beside-you," the "let's-take-a-nap-while-waiting-for-the-train-to-arrive-and-wake-up ... I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... Solving Puzzles for Mystery Hunt were continuously uploaded to the internet

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  questions about the Boston startup scene. We caught up for a bit, and she ... if I wanted it. I dropped everything and pulled up flight times ... overwhelmed. The convention room just for startups was huuuuge! Larger than any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... work at JPL, although not all of them end up staying on Caltech campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi-fi so I could take video calls for my new job (which I had already started ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  . You can keep up with what I'm watching at my Letterboxd. cw for food ... 't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for ... can make sure you have the bandwidth for every to-do list item

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021