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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  look something like this: In addition to subways (which cost $1.70 to $2 ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often ... (Destiny is on the first floor), looking down through the pulley in the 282 ... Hole, where I chilled in the corridor outside Black Hole lounge for a bit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday ... MOVEMENT DATA SCIENCE look like? THE DATA FOR BLACK LIVES MANIFESTO: DATA ... legal in Florida to kill a Black child. For the silenced, the internet is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  play.   There's a painting that looks like an insect-alien right ... to the class, and a guy at pika read aloud in its entirety to an eager ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  when they are looking for some information or advice on transportation in Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am ... cable TV are ushering in. Now granted, I like being an occasional potato

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... -by-trashcan. It depicts an insane freshman and is signed by the author, with a ... pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  interesting, they can ask the author to explain the project, and you can have an ... projects seemed interesting or relevant to me and then engage in an ... looking and play a large part in determining how memorable a visualization

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  's credibility as a scientist and his sincerity as a believer make for an engaging ... Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is best known for its ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  for) beforehand and followed Dr. Jaegar's instructions in their own ... collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1 ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... for traveling. I was recently in Istanbul, somewhere I never thought I ... breaks for tea. Everything in the building stops and everyone from the

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... country programs in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and ... professional internships for culturally aware MIT students in companies, research

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Oregon to work for an engineering firm doing ballistics research. Jordan Taylor '11 -- Working for the Cataldo Ambulance service as an EMT in Boston ... but in the end it was totally worth it. For any prefrosh thinking of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... trip has been an experience in pushing our cultural boundaries, our first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  morning, I went with some friends for dim sum at China Pearl in Chinatown ... experienced admissions officers generally read an application in 20-25 minutes ... . In total, I picked up 4 of their CDs for only $10! Afterwards, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  sororities. In college, a lot of students are looking for social support, and ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... people, and I wasn’t sure what it was I was missing or I was looking for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015