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• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... the people I met and the ones I want to get to know better. Some of them ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education, to which there are a few common responses: 1) Not following up ... small talk mode. We don’t have to have a deep conversation about math, but ... interesting response to me, because I get it. I usually respond to this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  got a chance to really sit down and get to know each other; I learned ... home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm ... community. Having this time to get to know one of the students on a more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a ... hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the ... befriended by a group of warrior women with a quiver of arrows. They give Joe

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  tired my hands are getting. By the second day, I was getting a grasp of ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  stormed off to Red Mango by myself, and I had a wonderful opportunity to ... was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to ... ; not only do you get free goodies like food and a tote bag, but you meet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... treat indeed). I personally had a great time getting to know my group and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  wallet to get myself a decent lunch, like Chipotle or something frozen that ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk ... of sorts.  i was more conscious of trying to get done with some of my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You ... honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every ... learn what I loved to do. Lastly, the path to getting into a good college

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• 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.

  

  to take this dish on a honeymoon by the time she finished. I was ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... 's incoming class*, I started to compile a list of memorable

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling ... inspiring and horrifying to hear my characters brought to life by my classmates. It was ultimately liberating, I think, to have had a supportive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... ’s now mostly a day for getting rid of disease and bad luck. There’s a ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour (which I've traded a few sleeping hours for at market price) surrounded by ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010