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• 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:…

  

  front leg. When the Red Sox had their amazing comeback in the 2004 ALCS to ... Fenway Park to celebrate in the streets. I could hear the World Series from ... in the church himself (he sent somebody else to do it), and that the it

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

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  've practiced yet, or when the interview was. I started to get little bunches in ... theme in HTML and add cute little colors or transition effects, to which ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the ... rate this year is the lowest in MIT's 151 years; we had to turn away

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  invited to go eat at Maseeh dining, I wanted to tap myself in so I could ... grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple ... now have to rely on catching myself in the right moment to get into the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... two PSETs due on Wednesday) or about how long days can be (9 AM to 10 PM ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes Scholarships. In case you missed this or this, let me update you: so far, 44 MIT ... screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... we haven't really practiced or decided with what we are going to kick ... 100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  ’d essentially been in the same room from 8am to 8pm for setup, rehearsal ... have no idea what to do with my interest in music now that i’m no longer in the ohms. maybe get into composition or music production? experiment

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  hardcore organic synthesis to building a giant cardboard box in which to ship ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... -smelling jobs we'd ever had. Have you ever been to a mushroom barn, like in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... this was my first exposure to machine learning or AI. To say it was ... to implement recursion entirely correctly by myself, or at least not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  applying to MIT or admitted students who are still unsure/scared, I may be ... stuff you don't want to read about (I'm not a philosopher or a romance ... MIT and commuting to Rhode Island to work in Hasbro's modeling

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  to lose sleep to help her. Again. Or, at least, that’s what she thinks ... your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A ... loud (or to hundreds of people on the internet) actually does make you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in ... comes up in conversation or something. While some might say that I spent my “formative years” in Orange County, I’d like to think that the years

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book ... number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  opportunity to reflect and share personal experiences in this format made me a ... 15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing ... - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First ... so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I'm sorry to say

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008