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• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  !  Hour 9 I get hungry and decide to make the trek over to the dining car ... , there will be at least one loud crying baby. Hour 17 I wake up again to ... California Zephyr with minutes to spare. Hour 27 Throughout the journey, we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  . "Yes, you do. We do." A Practical Guide to Evil (2.2m+ words). Content ... Guide to Linguistics (≈125k words). If you know some amount of linguistics ... I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  say. But first, listen to this important message from Dan Gilbert, a ... blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a ... with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -- so much so that he has spent two to three hours on homework five nights ... With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  to 6 AM"]few hours of sleep[/annotation] in the wee hours of the ... adrenaline rush from guessing the answer to a puzzle we had burned many hours ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  important for the admission staff to know it?" Matt '00 replies: Having ... grades, and due to the importance to my GPA I don't want to omit any of ... : "How important is it to have a math class in your senior schedule? Our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  an important aspect of living is to make life as appealing as possible ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the ... 's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look ... about the environment caused me to watch them. Also, many were shown to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with ... started my 18 hour solitary drive from Milwaukee to Boston, split over two

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  make a meme generator for like an hour, and then bailed to play pool at ... weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  hours in the morning to cram work in is honestly pretty nice. I've also ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  keep balance while contouring a steep slope, it was important to lean out ... difference. He didn't seem to mind at all that we were spending an hour on one ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  look forward to hearing music all over campus, at all hours of the day ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  another one tomorrow morning. Since I'd actually like to write something ... term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the cold with nothing to read about, though. (Speaking of, why is it so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to ... always wanted to have a brother. Last Saturday, that dream came true

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... learning how to use Adobe Premiere Pro for HOURS but the job has finally ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  , but most importantly have fun: -The most creative use of objects to ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009