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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy). Taiwan cafe in Boston's Chinatown. Soup dumplings are delicious and fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  . My advice to you is to get involved in the UROP program here. I forget ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  about how this week was "hell week." (these things happen to everyone at ... how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab: So you know the freshman UROP who works in the room next to you? She

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  , with a break for lunch. In the morning, I managed to get some work ... also tend to be the best ones. Because of the general lack of change in ... , and so I would have to cram work into the corners to get it done by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the ... that they weren't actually in Boston to see me; they actually came up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to ... waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... to see how it goes in the future. Lastly, I watched Dororo, which I got ... to get through it all. I wasn't sure how I would get through some weeks

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  Cambridge: the closing times of cafes, the bus routes and T stops, how to get ... how very green things are in Massachusetts. Tuesday Writing in the ... my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to ... will blog all the way to [annotation note="a gorgeous city park in ... [annotation note="to be explained in a later installation... some day... one day

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  shows like Adventure Time, I'm learning how to deal with change in healthy ... . I loved how colorful it was. I loved how it seemed to subvert ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  why it's so hard to get women to consider careers in engineering and ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005