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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at ... to cheat, only one professor has ever noticed and said anything. He

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Fast Food Cooking for yourself (*gasp*) Dumpsters, free food mailing ... a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... myself. But first, a disclaimer: I cheat for dinners. My fraternity, Zeta

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  ="87585" /] Animating (A note on OpenToonz) Isbla: We used OpenToonz, which is the free ... Toonz is kinda stinky because it keeps crashing for no reason and doesn ... ’s definitely good for beginners! I’m just gonna do everything in Blender’s grease

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty ... cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... the end. (thanks for all your well-wishing on the last entry too! you ... - I took 4 courses and had my UROP for credit - so I'm not that hardcore

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Halloween costumes and skate on the campus ice rink for free (blog here). This ... ! Eat Pizza! Skate on Ice (for FREE)! Cookie Decorating! Pumpkin Carving ... German (source). Many students also cross-register (for free!) at Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  option for food and socializing. Up Your Alley (free food gold mine ... work for it. It is the one and only, free food mailing list. This mailing ... to work for free food. If you live in a dorm like Senior Haus or East

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the ... looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some ... that sweatshirt? That's a prefrosh! Quick, go into prefrosh mode!" You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  recommend visiting other cities for a change of pace, especially for freshmen ... Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  easily meet up to hang out in the city. We’d meet up for dinner at my ... . I lived on a Christmas tree farm in Lawrenceville, NJ! For a few ... year was finally making time for running, and way more time for my health

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it ... car. Keeping a car around campus is not free of course, but there are a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do ... marketing campaigns for higher education (GI Bill, and other factors…). But ... place. The MIT graphic identity, for example, is composed of things like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... Julie Gerberding and Compton lecturer Tom Brokaw, for example. We've also hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... the options are great... well, they're about as good as they are for the omnivores. For the record, I think the best place for veggie options is Steam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... for it three times. They're always just giving it out for free wherever ... This year the city of Boston turns 375 years old (that makes Boston

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... graduated online. I didn't watch, but my parents did. I started in the Aero

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... ! i'm bracing myself for another terrible semester. i keep telling ... .804 (Computational Cognitive Science) - i've been waiting to take this class for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  have such different calender schedules? For example, are there issues ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for example. But it may be getting easier for fall term cross registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... Line, which hits the Red Line at South Station. These pictures ... wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and for sharing your experiences! I appreciate y’all! Number 1 tip

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016