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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a convincingly spunky Indian female character, let alone a protagonist. Sadly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free ... this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live and work anywhere between 3 months to a year. Most MISTI programs also

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life ... never a large number due to the fact that I moved quite often so, I never

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead--an 18.02 pset due the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  (ET) on Thursday, March 8, 2012." I confirmed acceptance a lot sooner than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Gretna, Florida. Over time the project evolved into a multi ... equipment, etc) and managing the camp website. On a more personal note, this camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... 's Anonymous," which listed the following description in the IAP guide: "A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... a musician at first glance! And coming from what essentially amounted to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... centralized where you live, as many do. As a result, every dorm hosts their own

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... participate in a MISTI program, among other things."]IAP.[/annotation] Along with a [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025