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• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  , and consequently had to spend an extra $10 on ATM fees. My order ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some ... cicada or something and it made me think about my choice to come to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  have to pay a small membership fee. But in return for $20, I secured the ... embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... subjective rankings and even the information provided is subject to what I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  to offload their junk for a fee. I checked my Reuse-Sell folder, and ... often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... , daily highs are 35 degrees. during the rainy season, from june to october ... while since you've Decided to test your chances And reach for your goals

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that, as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... and Friday, so I hadn’t devoted much time to either hack prep or sleep. Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be ... . According to its founder, Internet entrepreneur Ben Nelson, Minerva is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  surprised to see the price differential."]the fees[/annotation]are much, much ... know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  flat fee and then get to pay half price at dining halls), so those ... -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009