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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... motorcycle, my legs exposed, everything seemed to move so fast. I was, for a ... easier. Already I was itching for a next time. I returned to the test site

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  , I can chill out for a little bit.. but you're glad your friends are ... ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on ... and I in really cheap rain suits we'd bought from a Walmart-like place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  to the MIT Mystery Hunt team I run and orchestrating a series of meetups with Mathcampers in town for hunt. Then I locked in on web.lab again. For like two days and then I strayed down the lovely path of Bad Ideas

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... , and it was completely worth taking 8.01L for me and I felt a lot more ... know about your freshmen year.  I've learned a lot through my own

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet up with your ... short walk along the river can be a nice break from all the events of the ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  Groovy and MoHeels, so i was designated as a choreographer for both sets. i ... proposed for the set, so i spent a good amount of time looking for more; i ... practice (in red). as you can see, there's a lot of running from studio to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  paleness. People carry themselves more loosely now. Sometimes I can't find a ... contractor work for them. I'm doing everything from content writing to full ... rent). I'm a house manager for WILG, which means I assign chores and do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can ... this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity ... . Anonymous asked: If I get financial aid from MIT, is there any way I can get

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  1) I've almost fully recovered from the flu 2) I turned 31 - I AM ... watch TV but I'm obsessed with Alias so I make time for it - haven't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... everything is so beautiful  from a height where to stay grounded is to float ... angst, I wish for a future full of love poems, the mushy gushy kind.  3

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little ... Hall residents, to which I am no exception. Just a bit over a week ago

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I can outrun everything, but where I can handle most things. Not a ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where ... raising their eyebrows at, or where every hesitant “Okay…” came from. I

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to ... opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my ... all dispersed. While I can see the remnants of a life once lived, and I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  where i went a few weeks without touching a piano, and when i came back i ... good at piano as i used to be, and i can get back to 100% with a bit of ... key accuracy as a proxy for piano skill, i’d accidentally equated the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  except for a few brief instances where the actors have added in-character lines. (These are extremely brief. For example, I'm pretty sure the death ... !" than were strictly called for by the script. I'm still citing it as an

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008