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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  a fireplace (even if it is boarded up and non-functional, as are most ... Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even ... across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when ... delightful squelching sounds after a while (see 4.) Everything is wet. It ... about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... really is exact. What you need: Salmon filets 1 bag - Plantain Chips Salt ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  editorials. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as ... 't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... , scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  , "Getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose" which is ... So you know how cars sit at stoplights with their all their blinkers ... the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  accomplishments. We talked for a long time about how I got to MIT and what it is ... for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... , which is a really tall building with the world's highest altitude art

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight ... in. A lot of the research that is being done is years from becoming ... is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing ... was when i realized how much packing i have to do. move out day for all ... 'll be a senior next year, my Burton Conner single will be much smaller

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is ... now part of my everyday life.  They say that too much of a good thing ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  : “Technically, the glass is always full.” -- a casual wardrobe. This is optional ... late night -- a dress, if there is >1% chance you will consider attending sorority rush or a formal. There is a free and regularly scheduled

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to ... matter what their rank is in comparison to yours. You have a lot to say

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

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  yet, a child who is spoken to twice as much as another child will make ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It ... want to; and it is not better to fill it more, or as much as possible

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  warmth of a memory feels so much more translucent, transparent, in ... a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... . Whenever the owner asked how the food was, I’d give her a double thumbs up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... Tex, which for me who is honestly pretty horrible at anything that involves a ... to arrive. Boston is a lot nicer to be in when you don’t have a Pset

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  projects and a writing portfolio and all that. Now I have no finals while almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  , "How many is a Brazilian?" (PS. Yes, this was originally a blonde joke ... 've received, The first one is about a lunchtime meeting for the Presidents ... 't actually too hard, which is part of the reason MIT has about a Brazillion

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still charged with admitting a Class of 2010. And even for students who have had ... reply back has been, "I don't know either." This is an unprecedented

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018