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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  few blocks away in any direction. First off, there's Toscanini's about ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  everything was going to be processed via first class mail. Unfortunately, the ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston is very beautiful. Two dusk photographs: first, the sun begins to ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , if you’re a freshman and you don’t have to take GIRs first semester ... Requirements—GIRs). When looking at MIT, my first thought after learning about ... Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  incredibly intimidating. (Not going to lie: I was legitimately scared the first ... to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-9E4AYRGg Where to go from here? To be sincere,  I didn't think I'd make it near. My twenty second year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing ... have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... . I want to put up an entry highlighting the various awesome things that ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  engineering to make awesome music-based video games. Harmonix's first big hit ... more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... to do, and that's something that can only come with time. now, i have more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  semester only to fail my first class at MIT. Final exam scores were released ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  the twenty minutes or so prior to the first call. I was in my room ... MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes ... enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  tea available and I was determined to have something. Yet, in the first ... places to try food. Eastern Edge is a new food hall located right in the ... off just getting a [annotation note="brown sugar cardamom latte to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020