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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  anything, for that matter, coming at me at a 45-plus-degree angle.   < ... degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  ! Caltech's 'prank' this year was pretty sweet - they make a fake issue of the ... have to say, this is one of the coolest drapes I saw at East Campus. Wow ... MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever ... One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of ... trajectories of my life at MIT. My CourseRoad shows at least 25 saved roads

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  painting your door - at least, that was my experience, but I’m sure a lot of ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental ... This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and 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

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

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... -playing robots at the Boston Museum of Science. My team's robots were significantly ... point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  Rutherford's discovery of the atom by hurling ping pong balls at strings of ... up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... image of Yoda momentarily appears at the point of impact. Now, granted ... DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant ... Throw paint-filled balloons at your friends in this clash of colors ... Swagfest Battle of the Fakes Space Team and Screaming Water War How

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  campus. Military training has existed at MIT ever since the Institute ... commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or admiral. The three Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs located at
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... to stop growing until we deprived them of oxygen, at which point they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees ... through the bottom of the ornament, but if you squint at the dark blue one ... ! :) Here's a photo of the bench you work at while making things; I didn

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... on the bus to Times Square. The eye-frazzling shock of Manhattan at ... . Settling at last into a posh-yet-Zenlike bench at one of the swankier, less

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake ... bring new challenges everyday. At the very least, I had a run down of ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018