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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  MIT, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the money situation and ... , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  note="Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this semester, and ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a pleasant surprise -- a plethora of beautiful vintage bird stamps, two bags full of my old copic markers (expensive!), a couple prints made by my old

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

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular ... ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should ... those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... moovit, a public transit app that includes bus and subway routes ... longer because of the world renowned LA traffic, but it's a pretty reliable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... I am only a freshman, I have decided on a thesis which I will defend ... discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center ... Science, the discussion runs a bit more, well, technical. You may learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap ... -King-or-McDonald's pit stop. The driver stops at a gas station. Passengers get out and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... ish. I've finished problems 1 and 2. :/ Exhibit A: Is this really 7 hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made just about three years ago this week when I was a freshman and still sort of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing ... a tired haze. Your hands tremble with caffeine, this old well

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway ... was a struggle walking outside, even if it was a fine spring day; it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020