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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Square. Knowing we had a long day in front of us, we resolved to fortify ... Right now, I am sitting and blogging live from Boston's amazing new ... mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York ... out in order to pass inspection and avoid these fines. Meanwhile, in ... slightly different thing, because you don’t have to get each painting pre

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  experiences. ^_^   4. How do I enroll? Log in to your myMIT account and ... to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... the place for you, we thank you for letting us get to know you this year

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... opened my eyes to this exciting new form of history, which I've never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... Michelin three-star restaurants in the U.S., one of five New York Times four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this that makes me so proud (and in awe) to be associated with MIT ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for ... this summer" post...) Meanwhile, as the summer comes to an end, how was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get to MIT) to major in something entirely different from what you wrote ... whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... to help me get food in the cafe. So, I'll be fine. In any case, it ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  any great updates until then. Anyways. I've managed to get myself ... schedule, and I figured out how to eat. Anyway, I've figured out that you ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  paper and meet with someone in the WCC to get feedback on what else to fix ... sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the ... classes, passing classes, to get A's, to get C's (P/NR FTW!), to be ... prompt me to work really hard in it) but it was hard enough to keep me

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern ... in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They ... running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005