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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets, papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... recommend it. c. A fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau: Hung out and caught up on Grey

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... up on some of your MIT jargon... Bruno - A unit of volume resulting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  . Unfortunately, with term starting up again, I've been preoccupied with classes. I ... next few days, I will have another entry up. With photographs. I even ... -chemical basis for the structures of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... they'd set up like 15 people holding 6 boards and you'd have to wonder ... of them, then he'd just calmly walk up, jump 4 feet in the air, do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... year -- he may have admitted you! I had a few tough follow-up questions ... . For good measure, I'll throw in links to the arts@MIT - Dance site as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... different people, and thus, so many different communities at MIT - but for me, a quirky, uber-creative guy who likes to stay up late every night and

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... colleagues who have their blogs up and running now. Ben Jones is my rock star ... will come up with the mad cash after you're admitted. Check them both out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... . This means that if you get a passing grade (70-100) it will show up on your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... and practice my Spanish speaking skills. The course would end up ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  's true for yourself. So sometimes I like to shake up the class that way ... .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up ... of the transcription for clarity and/or space saving Introductions

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , being the head chef for the “Night at the Art Gallery” pop-up was ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... way I do. I cook because it is the perfect hobby for a busy lifestyle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... overwhelming that I essentially gave up and ranked the dorms by seemingly ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... simple joy of learning new tricks for running rehearsals while being a ... how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  hate debating. I think it's stressful and nervewracking. I signed up for ... visionaries. They come up with cool concepts for shots and simply execute on it ... strategies for repositioning the debate. Instruction and practice in written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory ... of my couch! Brazil for two months people. Eu vou trabalhar no ... for reflection and admissions advice since most people reading this are

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies ... are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  but first we are getting ready for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) which ... with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me ... you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... taking cool photos to attempting to break the world record for mattress

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010