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• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... vile. Might I mention that my cooking partner, Danny, is flamingly vegan ... . Night drops like a blanket, and I am suffused with sticky satisfying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  , totally worth it. A little background, with a lot of parentheses: I just ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... strict time restraint and creative use of limited resources, i.e. switching

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great experiences I've enjoyed this semester. I'll tell you about one of them here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... HASS course a term. I averaged closer to 2 HASS classes each term, mostly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... Transition Team, and I've been thinking about it ever since. What does it mean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... rip it out of the sky/I've tried about a million times/To shine the way ... ?/And when did you stop caring what people think/I think that I'll dye mine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... population. I take 5 HASS classes, rather than the “usual” 3-4 technicals and a ... subconscious yearning for sleep. I have, at times, been unable to resist the call

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... , pathologically afraid cat I've ever seen. Harley never comes out from under Hannah

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my ... to your preferences. Many of the folks I met during Campus Preview Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at remembering numbers (sometimes I forget my own phone number), but there were

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  thinking: technically, I should be calling them typefaces. First off, I ... .[/annotation] Consider this picture I took two years ago: The stickers labeling the ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading ... some suggestions she has for you as you prepare for your interview: I can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... is that one year ago, I vowed to leave no restaurant within walking ... pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I ... website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this blogpost since I've been watching it grow and develop since the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  nuance, and I noticed students in my periphery taking more ownership over ... soundtrack is even more challenging. Wes and Luke did a phenomenal job—I can't count the number of times I got chills, or that the room Regressions was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... schools. I want to lay out some basics about what you might want or need to know about your freshmen year.  I've learned a lot through my own

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014