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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  River is only a few feet away from most of the dorms, and once you ... southern view from the Baker roof (click to see a bigger version): And here ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  swim faster in syrup or water, hiked five miles, and jumped from a 165 ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn ... do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  take over from yogurt as a daily breakfast? I got on the road at 12 ... exciting. "A mountain! A cool rock! The same cool rock from a different angle ... my water bottle from a tap outside. Kindness everywhere. I filled my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... and my Hispanic friend’s quinceaneras. There was a realness, a distinct

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous ... PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... appealing?   Step 1. Determine your eligibility Are you a full

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a ... about his barber, who discouraged a young Nimoy from pursuing a career in ... the stage, a red folder poking out from his music stand. A big screen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... you from the minute that you step onto campus as an MIT student, and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  , how did we even), I took a class from The Most Excellent Professor ... Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never ... , hidden away from view even more than the average student. (I graduated

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  's a harsh claim. Perhaps you might soften it down until it's fluffy like a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19 ... gently massage this phrase (“fluffy like a throw pillow”) into a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we use a 5.0 scale, but that's not the point. I have a B average. At MIT. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  setting. every studio session feels like a blissful respite from the ... everyone coming from a different background, it makes for a really ... performer from Brooklyn. since she has a kid at home, she literally flies up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  , Treehouse Cafe: Grab a coffee (or chai tea, in my case) from the rockstar ... ’s also a battery of tests from any code your changes touch that have to ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  encompasses a variety of different specializations, ranging from urban design to ... that. We lived in the French Quarter, just a block away from Bourbon, a ... everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  the early 20th century, Harvard used a substantial grant from George F. Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  phone came back to life, I had a message from the friend who was going to ... . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  and upperclassmen pick freshmen). Anyway. This afternoon, I needed a ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October, and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  results, so students from a subject are encouraged, not only by peers, but ... concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a ... 's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  are a lot different from parks in America. For example, there are a lot ... in spices, so I took a page from the book of Ling and bought a 69-cent ... it's got an umlaut. I just realized that I had a commenter a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006