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• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  Ramsay for that tip. beating your eggs too early tends to make them a bit ... In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... time I have to actually make this decision.   I have a friend ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  desks, we decided to make our own. This was a rather ambitious undertaking ... want to do, so we commited to making something nice. We found a lumber ... membership activation), we cut our losses and just had it shipped by freight to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  to think that i’ve been strengthened by these things nonetheless. that ... she doesn’t expect anything she says to make me feel better. she’s right ... , does that make me mean, or rude, or selfish? if something bad happens to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  burns agricultural waste to make charcoal, which is an inexpensive way to ... week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  took my bike down to the aquarium and watched the sunrise alone by the ... make its bread. I have unlimited respect for anybody who managed to pass ... -out day, make a train reservation for 6 AM, and then go to 6 flags until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  weekend than by taking an 18-hour train ride down to the French Riviera? Now, it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By ... — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... IKEA, resolved to finish The Double by the next day. [caption id

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  .012 problem set to see if I could make some sense of it. I was happy to see they ... heading home to sleep, and by the time I got the door to my dorm open my cat ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge ... . I swear. But then I figured out how to make money off of it. See, I ... there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... ." Me: "but I spent half the day doing it wrong, so now I need to make up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  information page, it appears that I will have to be identified as an aspiring ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  to be done. By contrast - but keeping the military analogy - here at ... it) because we really like and care about students and want to make ... -driven world, the easiest metric by which to assess the success of admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  [/annotation] by Jess. K '10. A few things have changed -- postcard-sized posters are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... -one-rs, get it"]b1ners[/annotation] dropping by. Without further ado, here are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  -ego brain is good at its job, which is to make emergency short-term decisions ... : (image courtesy of xkcd) Don't listen to PANIC MODE brain. It doesn't make ... shooting. PANIC MODE brain might step in to make some rash change

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  preference to no longer be emailed by us (by marking messages as spam, by ... up-to-date. Usually we do this by deleting and remaking lists. However ... complex a communications project at this scale can be. It's so easy to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... everyday all the time everywhere. Just to make this clear to you, here are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014