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• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  similarly-priced plans offered by Cingular and T-Mobile, and gives you free ... phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I ... /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  deal of money, and c) we work too hard (Adam's working his UROP and a ... high school, Malox and Jinkrod (Not their real names. Adam's dad ... my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  Battle is free software and can be downloaded from GitHub. ... places, at Engadget, CNET, and BostInnovation. Check it out: Burton ... and Leah Alpert '13, with hardware design from their Course 2 floormate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar ... and then we'll dive into real stuff next week. The class is held Monday ... Studies minor, taught by Lori Breslow and Bernd Widdig. Lori is the director

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  companies flourish (and make money). As the old adage in the VC world goes, "Ask for money and you get advice. Ask for advice and you get money ... A venture capitalist seeks out startups with high potential and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Forest Hills Highlights: nut free baked goods, coffee, AND a record store ... through a summer program last year and we've since bonded over concerts, good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... , but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  -- and feel free to admire the logic here -- I took the SAT on October 14 ... , and nothing but the truth, so help me God. (Woo, who's been watching too much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  , using my skillz in physics and CS. If MIT still allowed triple majors ... everything is so cool. SO COOL. And interesting, and exciting, and ... at course listings, and suddenly. She realizes. That everything is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... be like, I would probably have said "free sewing study hall", with

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  all of the dorms and FSILGs. Saferide is free and operates seven days a ... year (except holidays). It's free, and gets you all around MIT - perfect ... weekdays during the school year (September through May). It is also free, and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  ." After I assured him my real name came both alphabetically and birth ... "Kim", who apparently won lots of money and an "academic biography in Who ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  Money The Littlest Groom American Juniors The Real Gilligan's Island ... television show. And believe me, my knowledge of reality television is pretty ... children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  conditions and that had essentially tanked my physical and mental health. The ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I ... and remember some vague things about it. I remember staying up til

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  room in 3East.[/annotation] This time, though, my triple-mates and I ... remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... , medication, and race, but at the end of the day, in the real world and in the ... realistically, giving you real empathy into how complicated and difficult life can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  lectures and retaking all my notes Short-term fixes I text my grad student ... vocabulary terms next to their math equivalent and tape it to the wall above my ... I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  more, and then suddenly the heart was free!  I put it back and took it ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift, searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022