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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  . Normally I wouldn't actually do this because I'd be too busy or just not ... step mark I realized that turning around wasn't an option because I'd ... as I'd built up so much potential energy by climbing those bloody

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  for a MIT ID number. Do I have such , or how could I obtain MIT ID ... submitted your application that contained your MIT ID. If you lost it (as I ... to you lickety split." I might also add that the MIT ID # is a nine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  speak to a human.  [caption id="attachment_118904" align ... had some extra LN2, so on Wednesdays I’d hold an event to satisfy my ... mandarins. [caption id="attachment_118910" align="aligncenter" width="1000

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  years later, I’d learn that that hallway was actually a ‘corridor ... would say something like “I’d also come to learn that the world was white ... metaphysical walls of Sachse, Texas, where I’d grown up. They had immigrated from

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  and play. [caption id="attachment_110033" align="aligncenter" width ... Uber and not to stress. [caption id="attachment_110044" align ... fruit yogurt pouches for months. [caption id="attachment_110048" align

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  circle for only a moment before diverging). 9/10 [caption id ... say ‘some’ with the same meaning. 6/10 [caption id="attachment_105735 ... /10 [caption id="attachment_105731" align="aligncenter" width="300"] In this case

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  properties like the colour of light they emit. [caption id="attachment_92587 ... makes them ideal candidates for modern display technologies. [caption id ... polymers to thank for that. [caption id="attachment_92596" align

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  physical. Anyway I don't mind scars. [caption id="attachment_84671" align ... too much sunlight or seawater on one. Normally I’d take that liberally ... there be dragons] [caption id="attachment_84664" align="alignleft" width

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id ... class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... than I’d probably ever worked, and that I did not ever want to do so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  … engineering, but with an environmental focus?” I’d seen it listed on the course ... was. Also, I liked chemistry. “You must be a brainiac.” I’d never ... taking design classes her freshman fall. If I studied MechE, I’d be way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  is best left for another time. [caption id="attachment_55506" align="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... digression, because I don’t really know where else I’d put this. There was a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  . [caption id="attachment_49456" align="aligncenter" width="640"] i don’t have ... . We were taught how to use the three tools to make this: [caption id ... holder[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49458" align="aligncenter" width

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  , and nicked my nails trying to sand things. I'd like to believe that all ... though I'd [annotation note="the summer after my freshman year, i went home ... holding an acrylic rod and checking the holes I'd drilled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  practicing a language. [caption id="attachment_39938" align ... . [caption id="attachment_39941" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Who knew that ... id="attachment_39942" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A picture from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... it was unintentional, because I’d ingrained expectations from the ... I’d had it hammered into my head by a counselor or a website that I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  , Jeremy already knew the answer. [caption id="attachment_68391" align ... " like an MIT publication. [caption id="attachment_68397" align ... id="attachment_68413" align="aligncenter" width="605"] from https

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how ... tile. In summer it’s blissfully cool, and when the swamp cooler broke I’d ... doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  and the vibration of my phone, notifying me of emails I’d trash anyway ... yelling and condescension from angry and entitled customers. [caption id ... Dominican Republic. I’d gotten into the habit of watching Digimon and Teen

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  those medals!"  I'd never run anything longer than a 5k but Chris Peterson ... worried about this race because it was a distance I'd run many times and I knew that I'd be stopping a bunch for character photos.  Unfortunately

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  's...fine. i like coding. when i get in the testing-debugging zone, it's like i ... about what they were doing -- using the pretense of disease testing in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022