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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten ... . Traffic is 24/7. I thought that there would be traffic downtime. Nope, there

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... to see who will donate the most money. I dropped by their table in ... the raindrops on the hat looked like glitter (see how I just tied like 3

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... (who buy the computers we use) would be so totally confused by the ... got into MIT, how hard can it be? I totally know what FTP is (file

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as something that could buy X amount of Y. I told her I always jokingly see money

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I ... would be inevitable if I dwelled too much on her story. In that moment ... classes are actually really interesting. I never thought I would enjoy 6

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  bakery called Bova's in the [annotation note="Boston's Little Italy"]North ... ="564"] the North End is lovely at night[/caption] i've also checked out ... Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... on the weekly sales. Restaurants in Central Square (North of MIT along ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... sun.   Elizabeth C. '13 and I watched the solar eclipse from ... before the event officially began. Through eclipse glasses, I was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Northern Lights in the Not-So-North! aka GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT

  

  HEAR YE HEAR YE THIS IS YOUR TOWN CRIER SPEAKING! It is my solemn duty to inform you that NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE AGAIN PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT! Get thee outside! My…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  in any way, if anything, I believed it would be a hindrance. Truly, I ... , if you told me that I would join a sorority in college, I would laugh ... probably still would not be in a sorority. I don’t know if I would be unhappy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would ... -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the pronunciation. How would you pronounce it? I, forever, thought it ... told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in ... always a luxury students get to enjoy). I've been known to spend an hour in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  680+ would get you "in the range," but he said that I should definitely ... her that I would graduate high school in late june 2006. She said that I would be elligible to apply in her mail. Should I still apply to colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine ... ' disappointment over the outcome of a game would put them in such a bad mood that ... was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  mushrooms, I include them in almost every meal greens: I buy a mixed baby ... normal definition of the word, but it's what I would call ragu in Russian ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007