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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  My family isn't really into traditions. We don't celebrate many ... distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ski trip over winter break. This year was no exception, so my family

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password ... , you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my functional cohort (and some of my closest friends) from grad school are ... of my friends but will try to occasionally update this post with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to ... curious about all those settings on my camera -- and the meaning of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as ... into Giacomo's this time). One of my favorite aspects of the North End

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  , lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full ... mentioned, I'm doing my thesis with the Media Lab, an extraordinarily spacious ... instrument the satirically named kitchenette outside my lab My defeated

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2 ... with some paper, a pen, and my clarinet. A while later I had transcribed ... some creativity when notes dip below my playable range, I got it to sound

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got ... 't bore you with details, but my group wants to change old power plants into ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... section labeled "fun." Basically I decided that if my to do list looks like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make ... happens more often than you might think), as I was going to my house's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... /PG&E for sponsoring my participation in the walk. (... and my shirt

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can ... normally everyone has ample space to live and enjoy. For example, my current

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on ... am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office. It took me 6 months to really get my bearings down there. Prior to that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  in a group... In the picture below are my friends Elyse '07 (Course ... this is a picture of you, but I'm not sure.) Some of my suitemates ... , cheesecake, fondue, mousse, etc. The lemon squares, however, were not to my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... make my visions a reality.  I actually wrote 6.3 instead of 6-3. Thank you to whoever read my application for seeing past my blunder. I swear I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut—where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  be graduated from MIT the second I flip my brass rat around. We’ll see ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my ... the Polaroids that will fondly line the sides of my memory forever. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021