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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  in 2014, where a DIY dye job left me with orange hair — I think this ... sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title ("The McGann Factor") came from, I ... primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... you where to go. Note that you can in fact capsize in these boats! And ... , ethnicity, and sexuality in both critical and creative work. Limited to 13. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in a name mr. sushi - winner of the first annual name bryan's fish contest!

  

  In a close name contest between Groker and Mr. Sushi, Mr. Sushi edged out Groker in a 8 to 7 win, but remember we're all winners here. Katy, congratulations! I'll be in touch so you can redeem your prize.

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  name and address in almost every frame, that I can never post it publicly ... day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... unboxing it. It was quarantine week, so I had to hold my phone in one hand

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... Christmas gift wrap. I mean, economical gift wrap. (Bonus challenge: In the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... . BRING IT. Where did all of that energy come from? I'd say it came from

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  fully heal. and i can’t complain, right? this isn’t the worst problem in ... was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to ... explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  , saying “hi, my name is…” more times than I ever have at any point in my ... I'll remember their faces, spirit, advice, and aknowledgement. In the ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... entertainment center and sofa, a kitchen area, and a walk-in closet. Also, I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I ... projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... /or had contributed greatly in a way that people would be surprised about… I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... definition of "type" in the trash, where it belonged. Once I got to know them ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... design. Every year, Ring Comm, the group of students in charge of ... details of the 2019 ring include the euro symbol in the background behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  . I've worked around equations in loops that bring me back to where I ... am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I ... little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016