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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... having to carry my passport and risk losing it. I was going to live in New ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  impromptu decided to go on a skiing trip (in New Hampshire??) with Next House ... be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... see here is just a beginning; we will be eager over time to find new ... left side the new homepage is devoted to utility and self-guided journeys

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The ... plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  , or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you ... " in the admissions office during normal business hours, to a) help new ... blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... outlets to any location in your room. For some reason the outlet overlords

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  people. But this purpose is so new to me, and I don't yet know how to ... this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  get to critique scientific papers right in front of the authors! Every ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... : the best experts in the world in their respective fields come to our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  students at MIT here.  Instead, I wanted to highlight just how quickly ... .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... about selling string bracelets to raise money? I did this with a group in

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  ="67433" /] It was certainly new to be living in Boston proper, and not in ... section of the city. MIT exists in a sort of bubble, and it's so easy to get ... , I'm trying to get better. We'll see how I do.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... between Tybalt and Mercutio? If Romeo’s trying to get in the middle of them ... ’s nothing to get in the way of that relationship blossoming online, whereas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... going to pick up a new hobby. I haven't started that goal, and I was getting really bored. Besides, I wanted a faster way to get around campus

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to ... to each other. Remember how each rock has a force that points in one ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New ... 're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006