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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built ... grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or hundreds for their friends, either way) to show off this hack which they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  available for purchase over the internet in the future. The proceeds after ... Emerge, for those of you who are familiar with Alia Whitney-Johnson: Twice a year, Sacha Yaku will purchase ceramics and jewelry from the women

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods ... get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... ’re leaving me behind.  The moments where my life crosses yours may be fleeting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have registered for MyMIT, which, if you haven't yet, you should do as soon as ... for anything you might mail in (like a fee waiver request or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can ... "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... max capacity for seven hours straight. Change study locations often

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Fast Food Cooking for yourself (*gasp*) Dumpsters, free food mailing ... fundraisers in Lobby 10 Making good friends who cook for themselves Creating a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  . Shockingly, I was pretty tired for my 9:00 AM lecture on Tuesday morning. (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer ... cappella group is actually the amazingly charming Stanford Fleet Street ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group ... scheduled work rotations the base also had special activities planned for the ... simulator flights, Habitat for Humanity project, barbeque with the executive

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  8 months ago, an email from MIT asking me for money read something ... secure links below, and arrange payment for any charges shown. Statements ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised ... fellow soldiers. The fighting lasted for 15 minutes and I grew soaked with ... camaraderie because we all have each other's back. In the fleet, the Navy will

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven ... home from class), or order food from campusfood.com. On the weekends, all ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  that The Walt Disney Company had purchased MIT for $6.9 billion. More ... I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016 was an absolutely amazing experience. For ... found out that you could obtain tickets for free if you participated and ... went off and I immediately dropped everything to purchase them. Only

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  what to pack for the dorms but non-extensive so pls don't blame me if u forget ur toothbrush

  

  've packed absolutely everything you need for a successful college experience ... that I sat down and made 3 years ago, before moving into the dorms for ... of time[/caption]   So, in no particular order, here are my two

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  wide selection of phones with the purchase of a one-year contract for a ... This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005