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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... -Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the ... most of the dorms and ends at Trader Joe's/Whole Foods). 3. Harvest Co

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food ... mere 11 minute walk from EC, The Friendly Toast is always at the top of ... there's no doubt they make some of the best sesame chicken I've ever had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... behind for the new prospectives, the incoming Class of 2016, and everyone

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  because at Manray, despite the large numbers of good dancers, there's always ... students help. Many students said he was one of the best people they met at ... days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  prohibited. Consideration should be given to the rights of roommates at all ... words and pics) Finding heritage at MIT (If you don't read any of the ... around to help you with your stuff. A quarter of last year's freshmen at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  notes, and then if I'm still stuck, then I look at beginning of the ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... one perspective at our disposal? So from the many thousands of qualified

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because ... new digital environment, cyber-utopians ended up belittling the role of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to ... multitude of new tools, woodworking equipment, and supplies to convert an ... all of the new tools. We spent about 45 minutes cutting leather, opening

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  the TA dutifully sat in a chair at the front of the classroom as Yaffe ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006