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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... ) promising me that our kids could go to MIT, so I am just going to go ahead and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  10500000 things to say but your mouth and brain are like, "Sorry homie, we are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... to tradition and propriety very much at MIT - the closest thing we have to an official school song is probably the Engineer’s Drinking Song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of ... ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome prospective students.  It was supposed to be about my first time celebrating

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... felt (enlightened) after the show. But I struggled to write anything that I felt truly encompassed what the show was about. So I reached out to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... want to remember every moment. So I find myself reviewing my to-do list

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to ... where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb-dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of course). Its been known to help MIT students snag internships, land jobs ... ; thanks to Jeanne '13, I have some pictures to show all of you :) As we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010