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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  road test after returning from the trip. As you can probably tell by the ... can legally drive alone in Maine now! ... National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness ... using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I ... in what happens if you have no long term consistency at all in your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing ... homework requires me to be online--so, while I'm supposed to be looking up ... ... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  our students fall victim to the idea that you can throw computer science ... class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  post this because someone uploaded it to YouTube, which can host it ... process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only ... feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments below. edit: You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  in a while, you can pull out something (an "event") which could have ... . “Professor Nahn, can you explain that anomalous blip in your data near 125 Ge ... at the beginning of the semester. You can view the archives of past

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -done article. Plus, if you buy the actual magazine, you can see pictures of ... DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... her around campus next year...at least in The Tech. Here's today's Doonesbury: and see more at Doonesburg@Slate. The Tech covered this story in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the ... present Dorian and Ben. Khalea's video is also in a link on her profile page

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  seen them only through zoom. We say hi when we pass each other in the ... , that is what you do. And now I can consume them without effort ... already somewhat lower than the number of hours I had to be in class, online

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  philosophy. And I won’t deny that progress can sometimes creep up on you. I am ... interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through 14 rounds. It’s played in silence, because you have to remember the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  than you.) (Oh man. They show you this image so you can preview what ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can ... , arbitrarily graded online tutorial program. You get points for getting the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  missing documents, get them in ASAP so that you can get a financial aid ... us as much specific information as you can; this will help us make your ... Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... okay. And, of course, when you're stuck in your UROP lab doing a reaction for the nth time because you just can't get it to work... well, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  . (if you don't know what twerking is, I direct you to the Oxford Online ... Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do More Than Psets! Really!™, aka Things to Do On Saturday Nights at MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... what kinds of feelings to inspire in other people. can you be more ... brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be ... hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010