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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written ... unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , Microsoft Kinect doesn't work well for people in black clothing!), I loved the ... —all in under five minutes per activity! I loved the experience. If only ... website offers free lesson plans for educators. Although anyone can purchase

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... gave me store credit to buy a new laptop. I'm now typing from my brand

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  rancher. This distresses me. I own no cattle.) Tucked away in the American ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She ... the most aware teenagers I've ever met," said Red Cross Executive ... baby seals for fur. "I really started becoming active in middle school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  week. Responses to Comments: Jalpan Dave asked: Is there any way I can get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  living in a double), it does have its perks (I can drink juice from the ... MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... number, size, and volume, to the point that people in China can almost no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  I want to understand it in private. I can see myself settling down ... Table and buy as much as I can hold. Then, I cross the street and enter H ... purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... clingy on one person/place/thing. I'm in a relationship at the moment ... getting into any school. But even in that case, all you can do is be

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  from idleness. My thought process went as follows: I can either not buy food and do my work, or I can buy food and... probably still do my work ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful ... comfortably speak in Spanish without people judging me, especially since I'm not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four years, I've actually never walked the Freedom Trail, the red brick path ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... groups, I have been in Seattle, at home, while the rest of my family has ... out how I am going to unpack, go to 4 different meetings, buy groceries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023