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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... over it. After a long morning that melted into three hours of soft ... can assure you that it's much, much tastier than Paul Revere's house

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

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  that's no longer true. It does provide some nice advantages to ... Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap ... handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  primed me to expect hair to act like it does in Pixar movies). Car tires ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab ... oscilloscopes"]retro CRT-looking[/annotation] display. It was so cute, and I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my ... 'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  experience it yourself to hear just how good it is, but to give you an idea ... did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking ... tablet.  I also find that I retain information more easily when I write it down, as opposed to just typing it out. Using pencil & paper doesn

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining outside. I hate winter rain -- it could be snowing so much more productively. It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  has responsibility for cleaning up after herself and learns how it ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  students after the [annotation note="this was a scam, it was 10 days long"]week-long ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... . It wasn't too tricky, and a lot of it was based on common sense, like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  words long, we don't really care exactly how you fill out the self ... ! Favorite movies: Rear Window, It's a Wonderful Life, Dancer in the Dark ... everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  , treason, hang her at dawn, all that. Let's just blame it on the weird dreams ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... just how this double major thing really works - THE HARD WAY!") Last week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  this a 9-unit class? How does it compare to 10.302 [a 12-unit class ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always ... worried about. It was a 68. ...out of 200. Speaking of things that have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  puzzles, this one comes with no instructions, no hints, no introduction. It does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been ... us occupied during a regular MIT day. Or, it's just what Petey said

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  long time. It is located in the basement of Walker Memorial, MIT ... . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My ... radio station, WMBR. It was a completely spontaneous decision; I had never

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  your choice (anything is fine as long as it has an important component ... .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter ... fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees ... weather patterns, until this fall. Maybe it’s because this is only the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  my spine. Another deep breath. And it was done. Greg explained how to ... the morning. The worst was that they matched: how nice that pearl stud ... needle missed my ear completely? I’d endure an IAP-long struggle recovering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012