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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a ... members/fake-members-subscribed-to-their-mailing-lists onto a subway trip to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... week... woo hoo. Even if you managed to have a nice weekend, it's now ... clock hands* "AH I'm going to be late!" (my first class was a language

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  and loss we would feel if there were to be a mass exodus from campus or ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat ... slowed to a crawl. With each passing minute, it felt more and more like I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  with finding what you need when you need it. Images can be difficult to ... everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to ... a learning instrument in classes are there to encourage students to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  daily burden and I often wanted to hit it with a sledge hammer since it ... yet to find out. Maybe I'm just not tall enough to appreciate it. I will ... a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  taken a circuitous path to MIT, I thought I might reach out and share my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... /ENGN department to become a Goldwater Scholar, but I also got to meet and befriend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to ... *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  the center-left, we see a streetcar going to [annotation note ... -resolution picture to "318 Memorial Drive", however, takes a lot of effort. We start with some clues: MIT provides access to a few different services which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to ... able to just sit and not worry about stop and go traffic was a dream like ... January, just after a Disney World trip and just before the move to Indiana

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive ... everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  point: rent. It was challenging to find a place to stay at that wasn't in ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead ... and a strong resolve to “must wake up early and do work so we can do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship ... identical, and the only way to know for certain is with a DNA test. If the DNA

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information ... LGBTQ students who have a lot of difficulty finding a place that is both ... straight allies who have difficulty finding a place that is in line with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above ... -3 is pure CS. (I'm being a little disingenuous to keep the spectrum

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of ... airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... only 2.5 weeks left here in Bend.  I have yet to experience a lot of what

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  , she simply probes deeper in her questions and gets us to think like a ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  under a rock in a barren desert devoid of Internet connection). I went to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to find out what the hype was about, but I ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more ... , though it’s not like there are any prerequisite courses to finding this subject interesting. It seems totally fundamentally human to possess a basic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016