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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... (yet, unproductive) break. The weather only aided in the inevitable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... early and woke up early, to weather like this People in Boston will ... known as the windiest campus IN THE WORLD!) This summer I've decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall ... 's been so hard to drag myself out of bed. and even when i spend time in bed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... time. We have this and many more measures in place to keep ourselves ... of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... in physics party pad. We used all this space to watch TV vigorously and ... interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also ... , but at the same time i really don't want to drop it. i feel like i'm in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  try. "Where's dad?" "He went in to work this morning. I haven't been ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  last time, although forgetting to ask for names in a Google Form isn’t a ... ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and ... catch a sesame seed or scallion slice in every spoon. it’s fun. and it ... shorter walk, but the santouka in harvard is easier to get to through the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for ... to run. I taught class in Digital Literacy and took on more overnight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me or Matt - understandably, we represent MIT, with which you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  parents reading this blog, is there anything you'd like me to talk about, or ... Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  high school have weak (no AP or honors, iirc) preparation, but I also, for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  financial aid to pursue your studies, regardless of your caste, gender, or ... voice in the movement. Many are surprised to hear that the first ... that allowed the US to become the current world leader in higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  in about a week or two and word on the street was that they were going ... difficult to remember names or what's going on. So lately I've been waking up ... players fare in an ancient world?" "What if Afghanistan was never invaded

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such ... delayed her trip to the hospital to give birth because she was so engrossed in reading George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) reading list: Moll Flanders

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007