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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  other activities as well, helpful for breaks in between portions, but the ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend of peaceful and exciting. Great time for introspection, too. The adult

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to propose improvements to and new ideas for the metropolitan Paris subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  below or at the ZigZag comments box. The idea for this episode actually ... Production Services (AMPS): the people behind ZigZag. Asking me for ideas for a ... for the filming and who were excited to participate. So, a few weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly ... midnight for our 9 am presentation the next day. It was pretty successful

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... hour. you can look extra hardcore by displaying the frequency signal as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  to constantly look out for one another, especially the people who are ... Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... basically the master of churning out pointless fluff "insightful" essays for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found ... witness it come to life. Here's a snapshot of what the weekend looked like

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was ... , these are for you =) The night of Friday the 13th (oooh): Dinner with ... Nam ’07, preparing for a Bhangra performance. Battle of the Bands

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less work on psets, a lot more talking with people, and probably the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  leaving for school in the fall, and since it's unclear when we'll have the ... for the frisbee at a full sprint. I came up with the game-winning catch ... overpriced horse collar pillows they sell for $900 in Hudson News? It's the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  -- setting up events, matching prefrosh (that's MIT jargon for you, the ... with you all, some for the first time, and some to continue our ongoing conversations. So, look for me, Ben, Daniel, Mitra, and more on Saturday night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... understandable to completely and utterly incomprehensible. For the entire last half ... while I was studying for the final, though. Even though I wasn’t fully

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... , look online, and see all this hype around the acronym UROP; Undergraduate ... with no experience? While some of the opportunities I looked into

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... fairs, even if you aren't looking for a job yet. They may not have a ton ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... + B[ono] + MIT = progress for the poor This must be the kind of thing ... also wants credit for inventing the mullet. Well, still, Mr. B... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time ... fill-in-the-blank University all along!" guy. Don't do it. For more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  , or just me. I wonder if she pities me. I stew on it for the rest of the ... them before they rot. I grab the Boursin cheese. I reach for two ... . She did. I can see the city across the river, and it looks different

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine ... ., 2:44 PM, 6/2/2018 Hi ESP, This is not really the right list for this

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were ... for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities ... by New House for a final swim test? Most people took the swim test

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014