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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... whiteboard in French House; they're always covered with a combination of ... PEOPLE WITH ORGO!!!!" I guess Particularly Enthusiastic Chemist didn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk ... with espresso clouds. Did you know that some people got into MIT recently ... , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think ... . For three days, we set up mobile health stations (complete with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Infinite corridor with the satisfaction that you could return to the campus ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with ... told you that MIT is filled with nerds who are ultra-competitive and just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  referencing street names and buildings and course numbers with all the ... , skipping a lecture or two or ten, were all waved away with the excuse that ... efforts to drag them into weeknight shenanigans with a somewhat wistful

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends ... with no elevator. The apartment had just one bedroom and two twin-size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... were away, otherwise occupied with other IAP-y things. Looking back at ... you so far. Actually being on scene with a living, breathing person is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  , you chose which one you lived with.  I remember looking at the sea of ... which they responded with great awe and want to taste it. I told them ... ’t until my mother came to me in my sophomore year with a request to help her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be described right now. filled with friends. friendful, if you will. after five ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on ... up cross country skiing with a coat over his formalwear, so I couldn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  , and the various memorabilia associated with my school. if i ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... felt my eyes burn, and i put it down. i've always struggled with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  never one with this many team members involved, nor with this many moving ... .009, where I presented a solid five times, usually with about one hour’s worth ... I’m comfortable with the material I’m presenting. Likewise I haven

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally ... with insecurity all over again. I wouldn't call it imposter syndrome

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... with the Admissions Office on...[annotation note ... her with the idea...well...at least I thought I emailed her. Weeks went

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  subsist entirely through sunlight. Unfortunately, with the encroaching ... , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... out with friends. Breakfast was not a concern. Our hall has a free food

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get ... with some professors (who I would go on to take classes from) was also ... my interview with my MIT EC. And I loved how Mystery Hunt was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  MIT. Moreover, he is bored with his life as an academic superstar and breezing through his courses with little excitement (or success with girls). Impressing his nonlinear equations professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) with his

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  . So, since I used to rely a lot on eating meat with pretty much every ... with vegetables and tofu--I cook for myself a lot during the school year ... 't have much of a problem--I'd only be struck with a craving when I passed a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005