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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... /Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter ... 's really not that hard.  As the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes ... special programs meant to support and enhance students’ lives outside of the classroom. These include the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  competition, the first season of which gave us the imminently quotable Jay McCarroll, Austin Scarlett, and Kara Saun. Anyway, in the middle of the recap, I came across this description of the (literally) magnetic muslin gown of designer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... interesting for the entire family. MIT offers information sessions followed by ... officers (I do about 2 of those sessions each week). The information session

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). As an undergraduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... sweet stuff. Some of the stuff I've received for free include:A fridge A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , my friends will got on boats off the coast of Alaska, work at JPL, CERN ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... hamper of laundry. The thought of transporting a bag of dirty clothing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... .CPW Farewell: Saturday, 5pm (and probably Battle of the Bands, too). The head of ... blog entry for another time. Steven Holl discussing the Chapel of St

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life ... Sciences from MIT. I can see the light. I CAN SEE IT. IT IS SO SO CLOSE. Of ... may comprise more than 20% of the whole. Try to assemble your "text

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the ... each cookie go in a half-pound bag. (Four of the shortbreads, two of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake ... places over the course of the day. It would be a momentous undertaking, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  about twenty years of travelling on the Delaware coast and three years ... DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of ... there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006