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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Nisha D. ‘21, fellow blogger and 1E resident. 4 (left). From a ... ; Local Outings 11. Seen from Porter Square, Sommervile, a different world ... competition (more on the MayFair coming soon). 15. Intermission: from a park

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  from everything, what with 2015 finally in the horizon, and delve a ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most common questions here (with help from Dean Marilee)... 1) How many people will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  , really gorgeous drawings that I take a lot of inspiration from. He just ... distinguish them from my oil paintings, and also give them a very immediate ... Student Center. Holly is a Comparative Media Studies major, skilled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a good decision given what I could select from. I still wanted some ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... , and from then on I had a bizarre craving for Fanta. We left a note for ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  everyone is sitting in a small booth, inches away from the rotating cylinder ... unique and cool pieces, from teeny-tiny pottery, to a 3D entirely bedazzled ... One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... on Destiny. A tiny zebra Ami G. ‘14 brought back for me from her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  words are used. I trace a lot of the influence in my writing from spoken ... the right parts are from The Art of Calligraphy, the top part being a ... . Did you know that the word “matrix” comes from Latin mater, meaning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  've also been on OpenCourseWare from time to time in an attempt to learn a ... , making for a reasonably small time commitment. They run the gamut from ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  sticker from Pal@MIT. It depicts the dove, a symbol of peace, wearing a ... sticker from 2018 REX, the entire dorm had transformed into a big Hawaiian ... . Health Is A Human Right: This sticker is from MIT's Global Health Alliance

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... examine Mills first. Mills is a student who is defined by the world in which

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  my favorite. Here’s some documents from a role-playing game lead by ... essays from these classes every year. I enjoy reading a lot of them. On top ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  bought a cactus from home depot to keep me company, but it's not the same ... " Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee ... coast are coasters.  So I'm a yankee coaster.  I can't imagine Boston Red

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . This means you come from a long line of educated people, who had the ... spot from an equal or better student, it specifically takes away a spot ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about Independent Activities Period (IAP), which lasts from January 9- February 5

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021