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• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  . Usually I'd mention how you have to wait to get off the plane but this seat ... , or FR) This is the seat you'll probably get if you check in late and it ... . Have to store all of your luggage in the overhead bins, annoying if you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... learned how to eat.” Hmm, it is a good book. But I’m still eating cupcakes

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... ! The first time is absolutely terrifying...but you get used to it. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  through the new one; I've gotten to do some more in-depth readings about the ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... without. What else? I woke up most days before the sun came up in order to

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  sped from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, they fell in love: (Boy) It was ... experiment. How do we perceive emotion? The faces pictured below are either ... -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... heat this way. The void whispers to grab the thing in your bare hands. At ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... aplenty. I also learned how to focus a camera, for just about the first

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to ... , modern me stepping in, how interesting it is that this is when I learned to ... . To quote: It's funny how I feel a little bit frantic a low

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two ... going to be co-Editor-in-Chief next year. This journal rocks and so I did

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  challenging and that in itself is worth celebrating. So here’s to new hobbies ... down in bed than it was to get my butt to the gym. Even when I got back ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... !). In addition to staging performances, Central Square Theater works ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony ... they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  interests to get in and stay in shape. For the PFA, the goal is excellence, as ... . Cadets may also get the chance to ride in a fighter jet (typically an F-15 ... more job specific training. And, of course, you’re allowed to stay in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... ’ve cooked in the past, if you’d like to look at it. My more recent food resume ... , you're the one I would expect to know how." This is one of the highest

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... important. as in, researchers have been unable to consistently replicate ... undergoing sexual harassment resulted in less measured tendency to harass women

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  .   A tree sags over torn power lines in south-central New Hampshire ... tomorrow. Some students have called in to ask about the essay questions ... ) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... : students often get very frustrated when majors are listed in alphabetical ... completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly ... was able to get by without actually having to do work. At the time, it ... socialize. Eventually I learned that if I went to the library and worked in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010