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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... actually use that building? For an answer to 1, we can consult the modern ... exchange for the title to our mansion on 314 (present day McCormick West Wing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out ... subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  might seem a bit random. To compensate for the randomness of subject ... students from the Palacio Real to the Market of San Miguel for snacks and even to San Gines for some churros and chocolate. The city architecture

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  his research for 40 minutes to talk with me about majors, and what ... we rowed out to the buoys, pulled up the traps I hadn't seen for weeks ... . I don’t know for sure if I want to do research in the long term, but I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  tested negative for COVID, but this did little to assuage my concerns ... figured that I'd inevitably gotten it from him. That night, I danced for four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... -purposefully buy extra clothing for a reason to go downtown (to return it). Results ... freshmen’s mess to thank for that. (H)ULU: alphabetically, it’s a stretch, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’s impossible to sleep though and great for pre-midterm naps. (Accidental seven ... walls of the box, exposing space for you to put things inside. If you ... least a month, to be reminded of and glad for your own intriguing fish

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off everywhere; I wonder if, on some level, I also wanted to shame myself for ... my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... immediately endorsed his proposal: to develop an ongoing undergraduate primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on ... ’s sailboats in the foreground. (Click for larger versions.)   And me and Cory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... to be competitive. Luckily for us, we're fine with sticking to our beginner decks and learning the rules for now. :) I want to keep working on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the ... 's hard for me to believe, too.) It has actually been finding the balance ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  -need Chinese cancer patients apply to treatment subsidies or apply for insurance ... bets on ARGENTINA!!! to take the whole tournament but I'm rooting for ... I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010