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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... outside of an intimidatingly professional LLP office. Sometimes I wonder ... transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my ... changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... of my entire MIT life. For one, I had a guaranteed social life. For two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... . The essence of her response was: it's fine, do what you need to do, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks ... about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  Summer's sunlit streams of serendipitous socializing (or solitude) are sadly shriveling.   My english teacher would be proud of that ... , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school uses a ... students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT ... (sometimes given in Roman numerals). These numbers are in approximate order of the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air ... make use of the ones we had been taught in order to complete our missions

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... bought a pair of roller blades. I forgot how much I really enjoy skating

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... a method of producing charcoal bricks out of natural waste materials ... of lava flowing, exploding, and making "pillows" and streams. After

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old ... school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  , and hopefully, call in and vote. Here's ABC's summary of the show ... recipient of the million dollar prize. And some relevant info about Craig ... from ABC.com: Craig Forest & David Moeller, a team of two former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007