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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  ending some cheap drink promotions and making some retailers help pay for ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  lot and are either binge-watching Netflix shows or sleeping for ungodly ... particularly tedious. we don't have classes for the next week and a half, so we ... . Duolingo, Coursera, and edX are always there for you, though! i know so many

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... computer, and screamed like I’ve never screamed before when I saw my ... . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  freshmen) while she was at home over IAP, and for some reason our connection ... windchill hit -20, or that time someone said something stupid on gchat and I ... coincidence that would never happen again, or whatever. And now that I'm almost

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Boston and try yummy restaurants. Inspired by my conversation with Andre, here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus ... MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  was frequently mistaken for a senior as a freshman, and as a freshman ... myself for the better and take initiative. Where I met people from all ... into the present and, lest MIT spontaneously implode, many more strange

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  Stuart, who, aside from having a great name, works for MITMedical and is ... need to work everything out for themselves, and some people need to have ... 'm constantly eating between meals. And one bowl of cereal per day is the bare

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  intersection and you are told it is time for you to commence your life and jump ... the hours between midnight and dawn, the madrugada, that interval where ... . I moved into a coop and learned to cook. I made food for 40 people, I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my ... Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... hanging around old haunts* for the sake of familiarity and comfort. Made new

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  simultaneously winning and losing, like tripping down stairs and being helped up by ... congratulations Elizabeth and Mohammed (respectively) you're the winners of the scavenger hunt! Enjoy the fame and glory that comes with it. P.S. I'm trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  influences of Mark and/or Shania Twain. (Can you feel my enthusiasm for ... homemade black bean burgers for a sublimely salty and nutty-textured dinner ... My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: 8/10 “Like lemonade, without the ... (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: Nobody has tried this media with ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren ... -door neighbors for the summer. I would be living at tEp and Denisse would be ... mall and commons made for some great conversations. After dropping off

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  600 stops around the Boston area, and I find them super convenient for ... around $150 for unlimited 45-minute rides on classic bikes and $0.10/minute ... $50 for all students, staffm and affiliates. I've purchased it for the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  can differ so drastically between rural America and city life. I have ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a ... story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... validation I ever received for my writing, and it helped me later in college

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... 're considering for a major (list all possibilities), and what activities you hope ... and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  organized and hosted events, coded things for the massive Discord server ... were concentrated between April 16th and April 18th, CP* is definitely not over! Events are happening for pretty much the whole month, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a ... , and I twirled out into the snow, which I had been expecting for months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it meets 2-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lecture and some time on Mondays and Wednesdays for recitation (my recitation is at 11am in 24-402 in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006