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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  that train.   As in the bus, inside the train is a scrolling neon sign ... the door. Notice that there is a label in the glass by the entrance ... to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it ... undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... well. EAPS as a department is really informal - I’m on a first-name basis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front ... developing countries. One of a number of programs in MIT's International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  Engineering with a concentration in Energy, is wide awake at 4:30 am on a ... . We have a core group of very dedicated members. Everyone is involved in ... EECS) with a bunch of sophomores/freshmen is great, particularly since

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... post is from a never-published draft about from my freshman fall 2014 ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  would be me in a year. Well, this is that me ^^^ from left to right and ... and a half! Finding so many people in a huge, pretty crowded venue is ... gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... in over a month. Just a lot of loose ends to tie up, you know? I ... make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  robot arm. A robot arm! As in, not a human arm, but a robot arm. Like ... Episode V? He replaced it with a robot arm. And guess what. This is a robot ... comes in contact with water below 45.8 °C, it acts as a seed crystal and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat ... the only one standing in the way of a dry and happy audience and the ... . I would like to think it is a short and shriveling twig casting a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  my kitchen, which is what happened a couple of weeks ago. I heard an ... , Simmons Hall has a bazillion little windows in order to make the building ... myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  building is, and he told me that it was a big thing in CMU, which explained ... Days in lives that aren't mine and A Boring Friday. This is one of those ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... 't know who made that gif (which is the inside of a room in Simmons Dorm, by ... google ^^;) 5. The Headmaster is charming and has a twinkle in his eyes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a ... don't think I've ever had a steak that good. Bern's has a menu that in some ways is more of a textbook than a menu - covering every last detail

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and talk about geology! We don't have infinite space as this is a tough ... interested in studying more macrobiological things (so this gives a taste

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014