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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... , including UROPs."]ELx[/annotation] and cold-emailed some labs to try and have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... rise from Killian Court in my pajamas. I remember my soon-to ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the ... ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  lab sections, I would think to myself that I am too tired to be out in the cold for 3 hours, but whenever we would get out observing, I would ... point in the future. in other random things, I went to SAYI, which I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the ... 'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... basement in the middle of the night, I moved to the side and acted like I was ... accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in ... other stuff that GRT's are supposed to do. In summary, I have no time to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... ♪   ♫These days life goes like this Wake up, go to class and then Gotta be a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of ... , because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes ... to test and troubleshoot their products. In the case of an access switch, it's important to attach it to a network in a controlled

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  -related parenting advice you'd give to your own parents if you could go back in time? [Edit: in other words, I want my kids to be as close as possible as they ... decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no ... freshmen to have time to explore and socialize, rather than being cramped in ... avoid the cold and there's some really gorgeous artwork in there. Another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  sinks in what he’s accusing me of, and as he begins to say “why can’t you ... hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... . When I’m in my room, I almost cry. But I force myself not to. All I see

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach ... recommend traveling there to anyone who can stand cold weather--plane tickets ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  then drove to Lighthouse Beach, an eastward-facing beach located in ... boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... am in it below!). It's made up of smaller parts designed to fit ... ) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  campus tour so you'll know how far she has to walk in the cold, go to ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... saying - they need you to help get them through this process. Here is where

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  then get to fry all kinds of delicious foods in our two deep fryers. 19 ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to ... topics in math ranging from algebra to topology. 17:17 - 20:17 Liquid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that ... fields, thanks to some special proteins in their eyes called "cryptochromes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025