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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Microsoft. MIT is behind you. After the stairs make a 180-degree turn and look ... racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next ... the terminal and the airlines that use that terminal.) You want to stay

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  not a perfect place, and making sure applicants know this adds a degree ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139   INTRODUCTION ... ropes, medicine balls, and floor ladders from exercise stations cycling around the room, MIT students collectively sighed and picked up their

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  has to offer and talk to professors who do everything. (I talked to ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and ... super excited, or kind of nervous, or maybe you've already comMITted and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to… [annotation note="Synthetic materials like polyester melt and smell ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... ’re often the place of absolute highs and lows, where epiphanies have occurred

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... about girlhood and math competitions--it's under my full name, and it ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  university just as much as its classes and campus. During the school year, I ... compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... professor at age 20. He frequently cites his own papers in lecture, and we ... line of succession from my high school robotics club, and an ex

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... clothes are kept, where I spend 2-3 hours every morning and some afternoons ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, where he tests cyclists' positions and new ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... productive," Blair, a former world-class triathlete and ex-NASA engineer, said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006