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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  park are actually embankments built in 1775 at the command of none other ... , and Dana Hill. This small three-gun fort was one of several established ... leveled most of its hills in order to fill in vast swaths of land in South

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... feel great at the finish line, you'll still have a lot of people cheering ... --for better or for worse--kind of a defining experience of my time at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  you’re both waiting at a stop light. MIT "Beware of Student" Sign – An ... of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  pair of khaki capri pants and a cropped yellow sweater at H&M and ... know you don't get two diplomas, although you do get some sort of ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  's book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the beaver. The ... sash. Our class year appears at the bottom of the class shank. The font ... and a worker at an anvil, symbolizing the union of knowledge and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  me of my rough days at [annotation note= "Student Support Services"] S ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my ... hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  at 3am or so. There was a Class of 2019 event, a Halloween ... "] Left: The 7 of us representing MIT at the NYU Intercollegiate, plus an ... Intercollegiate here on campus at Johnson Arena just before the start of the 2019

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... flags at the front are part of the MIT Undergraduate Association's Red ... , regardless of religion or lack thereof. The Chapel is a windowless cylinder

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  engineering seniors at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Later this ... Since you're all probably sick of hearing about my summer, I emailed ... out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  my parent's house in North Carolina. My father teaches me about math ... graduate. It's a pretty sweet deal, with the exception of getting up at 6 AM ... 't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  , until one of the people started waving at me - it was Cody! I hustled over ... . Finally, a nearly 270-degree panorama of Boston and Cambridge. You can see ... It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  . The fantastic photo at the end of this blog was taken by Carolina Kaelin ... at least once my freshman year when I was a part of the Media Lab ... of having a yearbook photographer at the dress rehearsal." And this is

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  time I heard about (or at least, really considered) MIT was at the end of ... : Personally, I think MIT has been at the periphery of my knowledge for a long time, but my first explicit memory of it is visiting at the end of eighth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  in Florida. Last night began the first of four presentations with my colleagues from Princeton, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. (Check out the rest of ... Mid-Atlantic, and the Carolinas here) We started in Miami with a nicely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.  Everyone starts at the beginning of ... courtyard of the house my family was living in at the time. Extremely fun. My ... , and at the opposite end, a few steps rose up to a small sort of stage

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technology at the end of our field trials. Compost bin support: Following our ... with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... feedback. Photo: Carolina Kaelin   Students at A New Day Cambodia

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  fun at MIT I decided to stay an extra year and finish my master's degree ... And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... dozens of students who have been to ISEF at least once, and many more who ... North Carolina Science Fair Region 3B Kate L. '20, with teammate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016