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• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... . Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never ... win, though I concede the meager pool of opportunities sought (can

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa ... 's associated with moving out of Boston (potentially) forever. I can't count the ... rid of my belongings, which felt odd since I've collected so much in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Sandusky will live the rest of his life in jail. I can't believe that all ... , the safest small city in America, and one of the best places to live or ... compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  separate entry. Something Borrowed... All I can think of for this section ... million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  day, and all I can say is it's kind of crazy how I am literally alone in ... that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... /20/21 One of the many flyers that can be found posted all over the infinite. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... floormate of mine, Jacob Cole '14, along with Prabhav Jain '14 and Merry Mou

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  students are placed in a variety of cities within the given country. The ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them ... get a lot better and I can hit my goal of being comfortably

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  forgot to bring it in and now school's out. I can get a hold of my guidance ... the AP and asked if I can join Intel in my junior year and he replied no ... I send that score in as one of the 3 required for MIT admission? 2) I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I ... and don't like it, it only costs a fraction of what I make in an hour ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  ." Yay, I'm officially kind of in a national publication! That's all for ... blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... it comes out to 40 parts. 4 questions? I think not! So, instead of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... greatest night security guard in the history of Burton-Conner, I was able to ... . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance ... after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town ... ’s over) makes me uneasy. Such are the times we live in. I of course got

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates/labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... towards gender and racial equity in cities. Along the way, we will reflect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing.). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored ... kind of thing than I am. Can't say I didn't try. The best of luck to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... when I joined in, but we spent the rest of the evening, part of the plane ... of May, I took part in my very first half-marathon. What that means

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... worthy of a Broadway matinée. I suppose Cats could have been playing in the ... the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food ... -out but it is true okay']answer:[/annotation] people, lots of them. I can ... startup. You can also think of my summers as nodes: points in which vectors

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told ... fog, of New York City lights. Now that future that I've dreamed of is ... ."]compromising.[/annotation] When I think of the future now, I see cushy New York apartments in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023