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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church. The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult star and cultural icon John Waters. I…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for Technology⁠01 In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred to as simply 'Technology.' to flourish.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes doing essentially nothing (I’m @ing myself), other MIT students have hit the ground running with meaningful projects…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the “Murals of Senior Haus” exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  language, which we later applied in an original research project. CI-H ... , but devote more time to teaching you how to write. Some pro-tips for CI-H ... -registration is also when you will enter the CI-H/CI-HW lottery, so you can know

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston as I can before I guaduate. So far, I have been doing okay but could be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  mein souffle,,, she didn’t rise Kimmy K. ’19 and Alex M. ’21 want you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. ’21 is only eating the cake because I…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  four letters H, A, C, and K are time travelers, journeying forward in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  señoritis by Connie H. '15 April 2015 VEDA by Ceri R. '16 Is CPW a lie

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  , going through H-Bonding and phase changes, and ending with experiments

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was worried not about getting rejected from MIT, but rather what would happen if they did get into…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I’ll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during college. Not even for a bit! (I’m starting to think I’m always more homesick than I realized…) It’s a…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you’ll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don’t worry). To summarize, here’s a map: After my last final…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: “Can you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can’t…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way home, we passed the Green Building. You…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine’s Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups – the Logarhythms, the Muses, and the Shakespeare Ensemble –…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the biggest names in technology, student designers,…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  The idea behind Globalization is to offer a CI-H that you can take with

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012