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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... ). There's one place called Yume wo Katare (夢を語れ), also in Porter, that has

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... , like finishing up my IAP class assignments and moving rooms in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... year, the brothers participate in a rather chaotic room assignment ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... and cheeses live. In fact, I drew them in pencil, traced them in pen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  guess that at your high school–just as in many high schools–the days you spend in class might go something like this: 1. Introduce a specific ... of these times they might write a problem and have you solve it in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... very different from running through checklists in your head or ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to follow up with more ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can ... school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... large ballroom in the Marriott Copley Place hotel to drink in his words. As for me, in exchange for free admission and some good opportunities

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in ... in the future. Once we have enough High School teams in the area, we can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Every Monday and Wednesday night, you could probably find me in Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... GRT (graduate resident tutor). They may know someone who works in the field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  tomorrow on some cool projects we have in our admissions labs right now. But ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect ... in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... either constantly or frighteningly never. I've been up in long enough

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010