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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a young man fresh in college would drive 17 miles each way from his ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  . From the website (biographical links added by me): In Fall 2020, all MIT ...  and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... Course 7 is making this resource available to the public in real-time and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  the ocean. In the summer, there are even more reasons to leave the MIT ... activities this summer (and let me know what I missed in the comments below ... can also buy souvenirs, including hot sauce from the world's #1 hot shop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  website in order to make it a lot prettier and easier to use, and now the ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  blog posts about it. (use our website's search tool! it's not too bad.) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to ... considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT's founding in 1861. Though both universities share a similar profile in terms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down ... listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary. Those are the special edition cards, let me know in the comments if you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Delivery, check out: The 2010 Ring Delivery Website Article in The Tech about ... a steady stream (especially since we no longer have Rock Band in our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... bumping threads on the third-party sites in an effort to minimize the damage

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... spreadsheet for our sizes for people buying clothes or shoes for Secret Santa Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022