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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  , but through what program? Where did special discounts come from? Where ... several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just ... MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  about this feeling in a blog post from Ben K. '16: And, as strange as it ... . Eight. About a year ago, I wrote: yet only a year after running away from ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  've learned from you a lot. I want to thank you for being the epitome of what a ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them. emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ” – a $500k quantum optics toolkit from Germany with nanometer ... to alignment, so even a tiny misalignment (e.g., from breathing too ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  build the Beta processor. Yeah, a processor, like you'd find in a computer ... help from the TAs and LAs. Unfortunately, for several hours there was ... computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  ’ve conquered mainly individually! So here are some reflections from a semester ... usually not a problem though because we would sit with our wing from Next ... situation where a piece of information had to be kept hidden from Allan for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  and Pi Beta Phi (and accepted a bid from PiPhi), visited friends in ... refrain from that. Please. And if you're a frosh, for the love of god please ... answer to any of those things a year from now either. What's important is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  how they got a $1 shirt from the guy and some smiley cookies?!! which is ... A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  that I'm back from New Jersey, I can say it was a much-needed break to ... duplex. Can you come fix it? No. Anonymous said: SOMEWHERE... there's a photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month, maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  incredible experience and it was a much needed break from the stress of this ... A couple nights ago, Shayna messaged our very miscellaneous group ... two books over and over again. I love, love, love this series. I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  people to sing with us. Anyway, we were standing half a block from the ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005