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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to know their classmates and MIT. Thre are more than a dozen different ... programs include one on Architecture and one on Literature. The FPOPs are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go ... pizza to prevent drooping; TED-Ed even made a video about it 12 years ago

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  stabilized again, and we’ve made great progress!). Just recently (during ... responded-to-email-on-whim decision I made all IAP was to go with my friend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list ... since I came back to Boston after winter break. 1. Made Magic (Bars

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support ... health failures, I made a point to exercise in the Z-Center gym daily

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  excuses to hang out with him. Either way, we made an appointment, and at ... spring, I applied to a bunch of summer programs, and it made perfect sense

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  , the e-mail claimed, an attempt at fixing the train was going to be made ... 't post a video of that here? See! It moves! This made everything make

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  bank account, but the bank wouldn't accept them because they were made out to a company name I had made up, the International Data Corporation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in return for payment. The key is to look for professors who are doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  . our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone ... a rose-colored strip left to indicate where the water ended and the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year ... where you go, honestly), but no, I have no regrets and would do it all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  Gardens where the circus is actually held. Rose ’14, a Simmons resident ... where she had asked the construction workers outside our window to let us

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... long before been renovated but it was still where you could get lunch. I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the ... about where to go next. This isn't just in travel -- this is in projects

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  think I should just start telling people that's where I live.) Anyway, on ... some nifty... Christmas lights! Here's a better picture where you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  when I was eleven), I lived in Georgia, in a suburb of Atlanta where my ... South, where people still talk about "damn Yankees" (and mean something

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  the middle number greater than 0 (for example, 3-2-7). Other options are 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  tools I utilize to track changes and make sure I'm where I want to be. Fit ... [annotation note="'Time blocking is a time management technique where you ... ground myself a lot better with where I was in the world and specifically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021