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• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  York City, NY San Francisco, CA Seattle, WA Boston, MA Super glad ... midst of planning Comedy Night and SpringFest. I'm really nervous since I ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and ... -shop in San Francisco is also an art gallery. For dinner, my roommate ... was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  " entry - I just got confirmed to be in San Francisco this summer from the ... prepping for MCAT. Any suggestions on what I should do in San Francisco ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  in a 24-hour mcdonalds or taking the BART to san francisco to reconnect ... , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... train from San Francisco to Chicago earlier and are now on their way back

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  eventually it wore me down. In one of my first nights in San Francisco, I ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  quería ver Las Pinturas Negras, una serie de obras murales de Francisco de ... 't know why in Spain they refer to cards as carné instead of tarjeta for ... del bar, fuimos a la Chocolatería San Ginés. Este es un lugar famoso

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  sweeping vistas of Southern California. After hundreds of miles of riding ... joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego Springs, CA. The beautiful photos are by Peter Vanderwarker. All of them can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  the MIT bubble. People flock to San Francisco or stay in Cambridge and ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston, listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... the Sierra Nevadas run along the northern part of California, that they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double ... spurred on by this stupid idea of graduating each with two diplomas, we went ... ...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... the on-time performance of the California Zephyr. I have not been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I ... my life is set. Software engineering in San Francisco... if MEnging ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  American cities I’m used to, like Boston or San Francisco. The buildings were ... one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  edition. Thankfully, a lot of the more famous things about San Francisco ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  of San Antonio (above) says of this photo, "ah i think you guys get the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025