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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... before it spun off to the sea. A cold, dry air mass from Canada blanketed ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the ... -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

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  was glad to find a warm place to dry off. I met some fairly cool people ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian ... . night to CPW registration. I was delighted to find Matt Mcgann and Ben

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  refreshing alternative to corporate Starbucks. A little later, we went rock ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A Little Princess. Afterwards, we went to a hilarious improv show and hung

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes ... . Nice. She asks if I need a few minutes to lie down, but I’m already ... need to appreciate them. I pack a few clothes, since I've rather

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  you hate cell phones like me and just want to find a cheap, simple phone ... This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... market or bricks to a building site? 3) Bamboo Matchsticks -- Bamboo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  . And I did find a place to start collecting papers - Paperpile is this ... I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  pi. But, if you take a second or two to talk to them, you’ll find out ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... followed a friend to attend a 2.006 (Thermal Fluids Engineering II) lecture

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  . Finding a band turned out to be way easier than anticipated. Some of the ... .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  /train ride over to Philadelphia for a fully-packed 3-day fraternity leadership ... Calculus*, I boarded a plane back to California--and boy was I glad to be ... Washington, DC, with a friend and got a chance to explore the museums and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan ... . Aside from the cabrito, I didn't really get a chance to have some ... go back the other way on the highway, or find my way to my destination

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... photos a short blurbs to show you all what I've been up to! Walter Lewin ... a special series of lectures, so I've been able to watch him live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  that uses these answers in order to find a new answer. For example, if ... runaround, which involves going around campus to find the location of a hidden ... . Then, there’s a phase where you use this data to find the final answer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure ... based on sets of symptoms rather than underlying biology, a messy way to define diseases. The hope, he said, is to find patterns in the brain scans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  like to be able to keep finding non-GMO diets while at MIT." I've got a ... deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014