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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye ’20 and Caroline Mak ’18 Preface: This past Friday after finding out about his passing, Jessica and I learned that we both…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a…

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK Trying to say something that sounds important? Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a working computer, and some free…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I’m away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the phones back in Cambridge that we’ve gotten some inquiries about our essay prompts for the forthcoming…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it’s supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense. unfortunately, i don’t have my own…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  A few days ago, Spotify generated a playlist for me that included a song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  39 i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially summer!!!⁠45 and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon as the solstice…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It’s summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I’ve suddenly become a Plant Dad ™ and am growing tomatoes in my office window The good people of Boston Spinjam are…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  I’m finally all settled into my summer experience in ~~the bay~~ My 6AM-6PM days begin with a long but beautiful commute through the mountains and are filled with hours behind…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  In high school, we liked cooking and baking. We also liked documenting our kitchen adventures, so while we’d cook/bake, we’d make an effort to try to take nice pictures of…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I’m approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a big ol’ biotech company,⁠55 wish I could blog about it but public disclosure lawsuit blah blah blah…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do internships, travel, stay on campus or any…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  if you like video games at all, then you’re probably familiar with e3 (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in los angeles, and i…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019