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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... Ride a swan boat in Boston Common Take a Duck or Trolley Tour Try some ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or ... notion that only successful work is rewarding, because it implies that a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that ... semester, and yay! There’s not a lot in the third quadrant, that’s a big win

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... commenting is acceptable behavior or not. I'm guilty of being one of those

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  explore? Being a scientist-in-training myself, this is encouraging because ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  is money, and IAP is essentially like being handed a briefcase full of ... -speaking-animal-gods-that-is-at-one-point-also-ruled-by-a ... also, half of the book is a jarring account of a girl's attempts to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and the publicity chair (my former TA), Brian Chan, is a graduate student in ... a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone ... it. Hindsight is 20/20. I think more than 1000 students get a 1600 on

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed ... be in. Still, during my first year in undergrad, when I was awarded a scholarship to attend a business conference held in Manhattan, I immediately

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interviews intense, or is it more of a "you're in unless you do something ... that is since I can't think of any single majors in math that I know. A ... Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a ... back in college. It was made out of schedule 40 PVC and would shoot a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... Monday, and in Thai culture, Monday is associated with the color yellow ... . And—here’s the kicker—my team’s product is a physical therapy device

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban board, or on a calendar. I have screenshots of this below! Notion is very

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school, having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... midnight every night. And there were a lot more tests in high school! But

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... because it is indeed really tough to suddenly wake up in a completely ... .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... secret of the Boston 4th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few easy steps: ...I can't tell if crush.mit.edu is a self-mocking parody ... vacation).  Which is why Hayden Library kindly had a Cookies with Canines

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... (featured in the video). 16.810 is offered each IAP, and I certainly plan on ... presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020