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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... , the Saferide Cambridge West shuttle (after 6 pm), and as of late, my ... years of inactivity. (Two out of two residents at Next House agree: it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

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

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... 't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main source of Random content) and I feel like that was partly the reason I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... of seasoning. Rush burgers come with happy times. “Grilz are hot eom ... months of intermittent warmth, we got what finally felt like spring. Even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... sequences of certain enzymes that produce QS molecules are. I text my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But ... ."]what if we used one of these languages instead?[/annotation] All of these

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my ... needles down my throat. The path I run is full of stoplights, conveniently

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up ... happened over and over again. There are a ton of pset graders, so we ... which I ended up submitting a total of 26 regrade requests on questions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... this fall, not because of administration (who is actually doing a pretty

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... this post, I decided to check if this has been written about before. Of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019