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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... :-) (I never said I was going to give a representative tour :-D) Before

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... Calendar, which I commit to memory every week. At the table, a few of us talk ... microdosing sleep by taking 1 to 2 hours naps several times a day. On the other

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds: community ... interest. In other words, you should choose a college that will be a good fit
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing ... devices here. I had a sort of spiritual reaction to being surrounded by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... like a maniac, made two overnight trips to Connecticut in the same week

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• 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:…

  

  to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the ... like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... tip was to build a compressed air potato cannon, so that we could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT ... official MIT Arts Portal! (coming soon...) F.A.S.T.: To celebrate MIT's 150th ... festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F.A

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and manipulate a lot of equations, so I tried to color code the variables to ... pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... of people who will have to hang together, and there is a great sense of ... fellow men and women. It took a competition like that to remind me of it so

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  resonates more than this exchange. We were walking back to our hotel after a ... advice to you.” Me: “What is?” Hardi: “Stop giving a shit.” We split and went to our hotel rooms. "Norms" and "status quo" have taken a backseat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... before heading out to Burning Man which is about a 10 hour drive from san ... The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  Killian Court to join a recording for a music video, in preparation for MIT ... time in over a year that I have been able to sing with people, in person ... time in over a year where I've been able to make eye contact with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... volunteering to a passion for languages to butterfly collecting...it all had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  fragrance. It's a much more temporary smell as compared to food, so it doesn ... dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in my hometown during high school and had to run from a shootout (to be

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019