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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #BuyItFor

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  out to my meetings for the day. I get excited that this hotel actually has FOOD NETWORK (another post on my love for TV to come), but ... this entire time to help me get from place to place, which has (for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  sometime the only) option for students looking to be challenged and ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... I've had students tell me about the pressure to add another AP course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised ... how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... actually going to take it for good. I am merely borrowing it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... medium was so new for most people that they just wanted a chance to explore

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where ... do enter it please be sure to be clear about the bass so as not to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... while blindfolded. But learning how to listen to a piece was only half of ... up to us to decide exactly how we were to produce, split up into groups

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  training, a bunch of small changes can add up to a big one; indeed, it's the ... Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  sense-based observations and Santa's existence as obvious due to presents ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  stuff we're not done with that I really want to add), and building this ... Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  years ahead, I knew that I had to make it. Do I feel sorry for him ... memory of visiting MIT for the first time is one I hold dear to my heart. I ... see if we could find some pictures from the trip to add to this wall of

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

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... freshman fall, when I kept waiting and waiting for the snow to come. October ... ="secretly, the admissions blogs are just my version of instagram"]just to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  learned how to beg for food quite effectively. The mama cat has four black ... paralysis took me for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to select only two ... , analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  without experiencing the college firsthand, there was no way for me to know ... best known for his contribution to the Human Genome Project, teaches 7 ... honest (and that’s all I’m trying to be here, for the benefit of my fellow

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014