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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  hesitant about 4.601 for several reasons: -MIT is a tech school. How good can ... 1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night ... for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... 're bringing CPW to FIRST. Ask them questions about MIT. I'm totally serious, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy ... should read the Nick Hornby novel on which this movie is very loosely based (I'd say Clueless is a more faithful adaptation of Emma). The largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools ... are taken very seriously at MIT; housing is guaranteed for four years so ... ; This is my first post of the academic year, so I’ll treat it as a bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  ’m already starting to call MIT my home as well. Life is just a series of ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially ... study break, and... This entry is going to be really spontaneous, since ... everyone is feeling hosed right now - yup, and it's ONLY been 4 weeks of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  IS taking things slow, for a MIT prefrosh? Ladies and gentlemen, my ... Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  is. But, uh, this is a lesson, prospective MIT students--never attempt ... teaching MIT ESP SAT Prep, "exacerbate" is one of the 50 most common words ... Campbell is, right? From "Xena: Warrior Princess?" (my favorite television

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting ... chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... about GEL, IAP, MIT, and any other 3-lettered abbreviations we have in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... (and is) a rare and under-researched sleep disorder. And yes, a chronic incurable diagnosis is terrifying to discover. But what a relief to know that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an ... can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... clarify something about my path at MIT - I now know what I am concentrating

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  description it was a video about a blender designed by an MIT student. While Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated ... . Blendie. CPW is screaming up on us guys! I'm excited, it sounds like you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start, and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  very important, branches of MIT's Office of Admissions. This is Copy ... See, MIT has these nifty basements that interconnect with each other ... along MIT's basement paths and provide your friendly lurkers (i.e., me

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT ... Motorsports is a combination of all the things I love most about being at MIT ... ’s because we love what we do and who we do it with. MIT is a hard place, as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... lottery and pack into Kresge, MIT's largest auditorium, with overflow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... chocolate ice cream. Being MIT students, we also analyzed the chemical and ... creation. I guess the trick is using cold-ish chocolate, otherwise you’d melt

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  from this year's integration bee at MIT. But first, a little bit about ... back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my short but colorful life. That is all. So, here's some sample problems

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  us if we were from MIT. Somehow, we got onto the topic of organic ... Greene. He was at MIT before my grandpa graduated from high school, and ... interesting facts about MIT back in the days. (In the style of Sam) DID YOU KNOW

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven't been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005