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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  : How often do people at MIT take these things? Well, some of you might ... the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... -ins? None that I've heard of. From my experience, there are so many things at ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  the lab of Professor Jianzhu Chen at the MIT Center for Cancer Research ... spend the summer of 2005 at NIST, studying the use of optical tweezers to ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  question below: The vast majority of crime at MIT is committed by non ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the ... the ring (RingComm) is selected at the end of freshman year, they design

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... that they do give you a basic knowledge to build off of at MIT. People ... conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the ... communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... [/button_link] The idea of “home” has, unsurprisingly, been at the front of my mind

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... put at the top of the fire don't really show up - you can see them a ... small vase -- you can see how much glass is left at the bottom of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this ... praise you and give you an inflated impression of who you actually are. At ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  A [annotation note="at the time of writing"]few days ago ... think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the ... memories of my past grow hazier. I'm fortunate my journal captured at least

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  at the tip, making it wider than the tip of the brush. I also struggled ... daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... complicated areas of life and leaves it at that without trying to draw a line

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  at East Campus’ Fred Fest, or in the case of the small concert held in ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of the ways that I’ve changed at MIT. So, for most of freshman year, I ... indecisiveness about my major at the end of freshman year. It was basically that I ... of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  from classmates, and keep your finger on the pulse of life at MIT! You ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  cry, made me stare at the ceiling at 3am and question my sense of self ... 's conclusion, where at the end of the day all those cliches are, in Bo's words ... movie" and it didn't feel like that at all. The movie of my life sucks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  amount of sleep before I'd have to wake up super early. Of course, at 5 in ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing cold outside. None of the firefighters seemed very happy to be up at this

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008