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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... that a taxi to the airport costs $70. Fortunately the NRAO and MIT are ... , we opted to buy a bottle of water, which somehow cost $4. A Dunkin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  . Everything at this institution feels like it has to be hyper-optimized for time ... importantly) to sleep. Another part is the price tag that MIT puts on being a ... ’s not just opportunity cost we’re paying–it’s a massive daily price tag

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  just waiting to teach you more. For example, as a first-semester freshman ... courtship, the ceremony, the cost. So it's not surprising many players compare it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  rows of people clamored about trying to take pictures of the half-ton ... much smaller party that was waiting for us the next morning to do some ... hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... stopped arguing about trivial things, folks started to look for the good in ... . Thanks for doing your part to keep these threads on the right path. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  tuned for more news--this is going to be an exciting summer :) Seattle ... 's like San Francisco, but not as cold--not to mention more hipster and ... 's tons of construction going on and the buildings all look fairly new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the ... detail that each student's "home" school district is required to pay for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... actually loved a ton! It was basically just a writing class on how to write

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... best options for your trace, or click on the triangle to the right of the ... Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  questions it made up for him never being around. He seems to be popular around ... . Fortunately for me, they didn’t seem to mind if I talked either (until I got ... soldering iron after forgetting to turn down the airflow on the heat gun. For

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm ... minute derivatives that I never bothered to memorize, I wrote myself an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  you go to college. I’ve changed a ton since I left for MIT. I should ... find my way to the second floor.   5:50 PM: I only stay for twenty ... to a three-hour dance rehearsal for [annotation note="It's the musical

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  another pic soon for you guys to try to figure out, that was fun. Now the ... (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and ... 'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  -roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... 'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... friends and I went to Spain! And immediately upon landing in Spain, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  just this year for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.) To ... voting for anyone other than Obama. It's also interesting to note that ... most important for the US to do is to prevent the loss of total output

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... theatres. I go for the IMAX experience, so to speak. 5:00 PM: French toast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  than i can say for having the chance to know yow, and more hopeful for ... them for long enough. Now they belong to the world.   the ... commencement address was delivered by Megan Smith '86 SM '88, the Chief

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... , compared to the current five days a week for some. Further, the dorm dining ... compulsion to eat at dining halls for almost every meal (if not every meal

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010