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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... (one of?) the last walled city in North America. The place looks very ... the entire duration of the trip, and at the very end I'm left in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow ... when I was in high school I wasn't a big fan of world history, but seeing ... hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... , or full of worry--it can just be. More ladies in sundresses walk along

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... part of the city that I had never been to before, and found new haunts ... , as it has been for so much of my life thus far, because I can finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course ... in Arizona. But psychologically, I am scared of missing out. I think ... academically remarkable in the thrall of MIT. Unlike some, I will not devote all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  , in both distance and average age of resident. I’m back in the Ohio ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the ... came back, and I wished city sounds would drown out their mating snaps

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still ... pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that ... in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... soup, but I can never remember which. And I generally steer clear of the ... </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  immortalized in the history of the Institute, I opened my email and found a post ... machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  still smokes! Heck, in Italy they're even more direct. I saw a pack of ... basically just said, "Smoking kills." Speaking of things that can kill you in ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... 4,050 sq. in. of plush mattress. Here, I get a squeaky 3,120, with a ... in bliss for extended periods of time. Here? We don't have bathtubs, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  what kinds of feelings to inspire in other people. can you be more ... really the point of this post though. i’ve been living in generalities for ... in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  of that nature: 1. I don't think Timur really has wireless in his ... -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... 's definitely in the minority of computing choices. What you'll notice about MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities ... description of noble tea in the boba review post that i will inevitably make ... missing functionality in a lot of places. for example, i live right in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  river, my favorite part of Boston. These are the trees I can see from my ... city trees and river trees, so I turned off into the heart of Cambridge ... and walking, I traveled through God-knows-where in Cambridge and Boston

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  absolutely the best of luck. I'll be in Maine with Adam skiing this weekend ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006