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• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Cameron: except of course North Dakota and Florida."]any other state in the ... .[/annotation] The state is one more thing to have in common with someone, and it is a ... ." This is true; the registrar provides state-by-state data on how many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course mean myself and about ten other people I have somehow coerced into ... freshmen and provide them with all the support they might need to succeed

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where ... sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and ... an armless Orion, and the butt and tail of Ursa Major. One star of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• 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 ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

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

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -sequitir that Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and MIT Institute Professor John ... the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for over an hour." "Okay." said I, shut the door, rectified the problem, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... anything new and creative just because it's new or creative. Last week Holly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  my friends and their family. every saturday or sunday my freshman fall ... do. at least that’s what everyone told me, and so that’s what i ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send ... their activities, DSL offers students and the MIT community many ... Life (he also oversees their Instagram and tumblr). Kellen and I are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my ... Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO) and we have monthly activities at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  for granted the wonderfully fast, universally-available and fast ... ) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing ... , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could ... version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective ... best suit their needs. And even within the courses that are required

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at the Institute—and he's been practicing his craft in Lobby 10 ever ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and ... . Svenson and P. Barnes (Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research ... » (2006) Presented by B. Audoly and S. Neukirch (Université Pierre et Marie

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of ... Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when ... was a rich sense of community that developed out of this house and it

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus Day, and I took full advantage, with an overnight train trip along West Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... and over and over again: See, the weird thing about the Patriots this year (and the last few years) is that the team has been consistently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011