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• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation ... cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... had a lot of events listed this semester—[annotation note="more about ... [annotation note="a 'social member' is someone who hangs out in a living

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  i think i have achieved a state where i feel like i should be ... a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that ... that MIT is just a STEM school, there is a vibrant arts community here ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really ... . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I ... Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... making housing arrangements. I have compiled a list of the pros and cons ... you are a pros and cons list connoisseur, or because you meant to click

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish ... signing up for the Clase de Conversación y Composición, a conversation class

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made with a 2-liter seltzer water bottle, some foam core board, a hot glue gun, a red folder, and fifty jangling pennies was launched into the sky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... would like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to kindred spirits that they hope to live with. (A note that not all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any better. I got some good advice from a friend and they helped me understand ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... Date: Jul 6, 2024, 1:14 AM Subject: [annotation note='this is SUCH a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Spotify Wrapped came out a little while ago, and Kayode wrote a post ... Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... auditory engagement—I spend most of my time as a shamelessly mindless

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... in the U.S."]NCAA[/annotation] tournament.  The regular season was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... the same. MIT has been a place where I felt more like I belonged than I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  a dress rehearsal. Still, we had one more excursion at the Cultural ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT’s hardness. Background But first, let me address a question that’s undoubtedly ... -Webster defines hardness as “the cohesion of the particles on the surface of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... oversubscribed. "I've written a few raps," Wenjun said. "What about you?" "Get me ... a few times, but he was never in. Yesterday, Wenjun sent me a series

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023