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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... shop, eat, see a movie, or simply take a walk down the Freedom Trail to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  town. I am very aware that I come from a place where the only thing you ... am too old for this now.  There’s a fragment of something from ... , almost ritualistically. I will buy a bag of jellybeans from the Walmart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  topics they cover range from recovering from addiction or handling a ... Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so ... set. I'd be taking leave from MIT for a year. I made arrangements with ... feel excited about. I have a few main goals for my time off from being

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing ... from computer memory instead of being hard-wired as a physical circuit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  Astrophysics. There’s a professor from Northwestern somewhere behind me. There ... . The first speaker is Josh Shiode. Josh has a PhD in astronomy from UC ... in mind, Anna shows us a typical staffer schedule: it is packed from 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  myself from reaching for more. maybe more mature adults discover a ... forget i am in pursuit of novelty, of a way to separate the moments from ... pursuit comes from a genuine desire to explore the world? and how much of it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  Grace, our then graduate RA a couple of urgent letters from her future ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest. Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... that, they built a giant box fort from the ruins of the stock market

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Hopkins in 2006. Aside from the Nobel Prize, Riess has also won a Mac ... 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. My favorite quote from Riess about the Nobel comes from the Associated Press story: Riess, 41

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  only two people that got into MIT from my high school were me (a female ... what I do, it always hurt a little bit. [...] I also suffer from "caring ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it ... again with a lifesaver email Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 From: Junot Diaz ... keenly observed, and it unfolds from a comic portrait of a second

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  here! sometimes you just need a break from the stress, a place where you ... there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... and mind. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] it's a rest

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from ... courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , listening to killer vaporwave beats from a murder mystery, and completing a ... appointment to a work meeting and mentally distracted from work stress. The ... friends picks me up from the hospital in a torrential rain that floods

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... foreground is Arup's hair and a little bit above him you can see smoke from the ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  ) . Brass instruments are fun. I once got a call from our apartment's porter ... play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  that we cut from a longer extruded piece of square aluminum bar. We then ... presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had ... youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012