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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  something. In this day and age, this is far from the truth. You can go to a ... . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... find an internship, a job or just find people to talk to about what you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  letter was from a man who had convinced himself that an underground dam had ... 've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  the past. If you buy a new laptop now from almost any manufacturer, it ... As I mentioned here, I'm taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... Library has a phenomenal collection of resources to educate and entertain ... senior prom. Stefano '06, a physics major, listens to a classical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  , chocolate-covered pretzel sticks, gummy bears, crackers, and a note from my ... ’t. Serendipity would play a role somewhere; a lot of it would have to come from a ... weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... . Now, you might say that having a Bible from 1455 is cool enough, but UT ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... I stayed with were fair, but I've heard horror stories (always from a ... recommend. I met a girl from Germany who used Aupair in America, where the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  from from [annotation note="a descending arithmetic sequence in terms of ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by [annotation note="a cooking

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  that have resulted in me waking up at 9 am in a groggy haze. getting from ... a few buildings down Dorm Row from Burton Conner, so i always thought ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  . The cabin was a small hike from where we parked our cars on the street ... .  We traditionally have a camping trip each fall, but this year Kayla E. '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... not only a birthday but an anniversary! What are the chances?" Most ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  ‘tough’ as a kid. I didn’t often cry when I fell.  Maybe it comes from ... with desert flowers on my calf. I cut up a sock to cover it from the sun ... stretched from healing over a tense muscle.  Feeling myself take care of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  , after a few weeks of searching, some wonderful recommendations from ... ! Breakfasts are always accompanied with a crossword from my book of NYT ... you all from the [annotation note="relevantly, it's actually raining

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  get from MIT" metric, last year it was announced that students with a ... package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of tuition at a four-year university is 2-3x what my family makes in a year

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each ... .  And yet, I suffered from what I can only describe as a weird sort of ... if I took a page from their book. I spent countless hours rolling the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  the left is a woodblock print from the Nagasaki Museum, a seemingly ... , from the Chicago Historical Society, is a sombre depiction of “manifest ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018