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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  from the airport so that I could show you, step by step. Keep in mind ... Random Hall or want to stop by a grocery store or a restaurant or have an ... the door. Notice that there is a label in the glass by the entrance

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... contacted by someone living in New York! :P Second of all, since I was such ... conversation is, by all means! I'd rather hear about your exploits on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  . We were hosted by one of the Splash coordinators, who's an MIT alum ... being particularly aghast by its appearance. But the kids FREAKED out ... constructed by humanity, let alone used for science, let alone used for Nobel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  here, by popular demand (okay, like 6 prefrosh contacted me.  My ... 've got basil (pronounced bah-sil, by the way. silly yanks always get it ... a little fancy, get a New York strip steak (by the way - the meal plan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats ... ) arrived, we moved on to a second spot by the pier, and set up again. I saw

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  . Six years went by - six years of staying as far away from singing for an ... out about auditions for a musical written entirely by MIT students, two ... by on his bike, belting out some song that he obviously loved, not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  a long pitch that was complicated by the occasional gust of wind ... makes it tiring on your arms, compounded by the fact that you're tired ... if you're looking for a new one you can probably find one. Oh and by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  fulfill them. Having passed by most of the GIRs now (and still with no idea ... political and social undertones, a fair amount of pure luck and championed by ... my (technologically advanced) equipment was made by global companies

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... was on my own schedule and made decisions completely uninfluenced by ... quicker and my brain is stimulated by all sort of unique people, situations

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  you. I should also note that if your gap year plans are not certain by ... leave home that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter ... story about "gap years" that was picked up by news organizations across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  !" syndrome. For example, at the Winter Logs concert (which, by the way, is a ... concert. I had been blown away by his performance, being caught completely ... something similar. Update: I have been informed by the Council of People Who

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Cyrillic by that point, both of which are entirely probable.) The day after ... fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... are easily reached by bike, which is The MIT Student's preferred mode of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  80% more blog for the same price by throwing in an IAP update. Also, I ... the 3rd floor. Aided by the the soul-crushing force of gravity, 3rd East responded by spraying the Random Hall Army with fire extinguishers. Brawling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  though recovery manager was gone by setting the partition as the active ... than part of your life.For me, by the time I got up to go to class, I ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  "Eclectic Humanities Courses" major? =p Anyways. I won't bore you by speaking ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and ... speeches given by both the Obama and McCain campaigns analyzed. Television

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the ... , hearing "She sells seashells by the seashore" in a Spanish accent is quite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... . We decide to grab some breakfast and her mom instinct kicks in by ... met Viva Coles from CA at a barbecue by Kriesge (hey did you know it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  gap year plans are not certain by May 1, you can instead select the ... leave home that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter ... nice story about "gap years" that was picked up by news organizations

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  . Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT ... is performed by MITSO, and obtain an Erdos number of 2, all of this in ... about MIT, I will neither be going nor blogging. If by some black magic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  position 19, and was immediately followed by "one of Santa's elves." You see ... technical education, and can mix things up a bit by living in Italy or Spain ... says: but I know you count by 8 Adelaide says: i mean, when you think

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008