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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... friend Lex, who I hadn't seen in ages, dropped by my office. Back when we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... system! In the meantime, you can watch me talking at Maker Faire last May ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take ... time in hours. I finally finished my paper, and it’s pretty good! Luckily

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... every student we admit we know can do the work in both MIT's science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT ... current students can meet prospective students and talk about MIT and (in ... of that nature: 1. I don't think Timur really has wireless in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• 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 ... RSVP deadline, but alas, I can't really blame them, I might have been in ... that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of

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

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  better. I think one of the most important things I've learned in my time ... Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  it in a week or two. Here, I can get it delivered in two or three days ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore. Because, you know, American food? Something I’ve seen in the movies. The way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of ... fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... because how can a small animal be so good (but maybe i'm just jealous 🤔 ... ? i didn't even know disney made songs that weren't in movies! bill

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... their lentil dal. Over March Break, I met my parents in LA, hit up so many

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  ’t feel anything while editing and sometimes I can only get through it in 15 ... ’t take off for months—and have my hair in a half ponytail. I can see the ... song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can ... . There are many things I can do, things I can make, and places I can go to ... You Wait Eggs, especially fried in (lots of) butter. Unfortunately, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  , we can smell the garlic. Love is in the air, and it doesn't smell good ... for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating ... . The Crest bus has stations for you to brush your teeth. I say, "When in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  . Most of that will happen post-launch, but I think this website will be a ... _O3iwGo&feature=youtu.be As you can see, it's in some respects a ... As I've mentioned here, here, and here, I've been spending my summer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... . Personally, I came in with a meager 27 units of credit (and didn't pass out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005