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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could finish this by midnight, but, alas. It is now 12:53 AM ... fruit."]study break held by our GRA,[/annotation] I thought, "oh, maybe I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  . (aram boghosian for the boston globe) By Courtney Hollands Globe Staff ... around the obvious: flavor, intensity, milk vs. dark. But for the students ... science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  of two parts: a big ball in the middle and many much smaller balls around it. (Except they're more like waves than balls sometimes, but pretend that they're balls for now.) These little balls cause little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT students really do read by telling you what I thought of various books that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another class or gotten distracted by Tetazoo tea time. At one point, Jebby tried

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  entire semester to pursue that question by designing an experiment ... .  We got right into it, and by the first week, we were brainstorming the ... if these headbands would actually absorb the impact of soccer balls as

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... school is what most people would associate with the art – following step-by ... After folding more spiky origami balls in my freshman year than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... infiltrated by the enemy! Caltech students appeared on campus in a crowd - and we greeted them with ice cream and happiness!  They were sponsored by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  adapted by Glee in season 2, episode 5. I won't say much about Rocky Horror ... Kresge lawn playing ball, and a few minutes later we had formed teams for a ... :00, I went to Nightmarket. Nightmarket, hosted by the three biggest Asian

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present ... horseshoes and lawn darts, we provide a 10 by 10 foot mud pit, strippers, and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it'd be a good ... , panicked, and uncomfortable at dances. This stereotype is widely disproven by many students at MIT. . . not by me. However, since it was a dorm trip

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... watching 230-lb guys (who can also throw a ball at 99 mph) Irish step dancing ... every floor of the Burton side, followed by every floor of the Conner side

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of ... ; I've been advised by Ben that pictures of my shirtless boyfriend in ... 're matched up with a host by your/the host's interests and perhaps a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  recommend you finish your PE classes by sophomore year, but obviously it's a ... , followed by dance combinations. All WOMEN regardless of age and figure are ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by ... contains the supplemental materials by now? The disc is labeled with my name ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  score in the school. He had scored ten points below me on a sixty ... exam when I had already received a score in the 99th percentile the first ... the concert with our friend. I took the SAT and got a score high enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8 ... unit credit for a lot of other AP tests, and if you score a 5 on English

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  maximum school rep; 6/2/18 @ 9ish am By FAR, the question that people asked ... ... middle school’s tough). So, we were afraid of drawing too much attention by ... aspects of it. We did end up playing some technically challenging songs by

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  class you start by defining all the basic things like integers and then ... that for every point in the set, there is a ball around that point that ... the endpoints there are points in between so a small ball can fit inside

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  . MIT is served by the Kendall Square stop on the Red Line, which is at ... figured I'd be fine. Yeah, not so much. I ended up getting lost in Boston by ... idea to wander around by yourself at night.) General stuff There's a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006