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• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non ... you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  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; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let

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

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... . While I'm not a prefrosh, I do enjoy a good pillow fight every now and ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high ... Kenya - so will you consider swahili as being a foreign language?" We don

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don ... ! Since then, our Jeju experience has been a mix of Korean kids, Korean food

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... ’s not really a national holiday or anything, though, I mean, it probably

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... that i am biased because i have just been hearing about the cube a lot ... . a couple moments later, Jett hands me the cube and asks if i know what

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  our old rice cooker. Yes, a rice cooker.  [caption id="attachment_55827 ... [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow, but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It ... , a land of glue, x-acto knives, mounds of paper, pencil and pens

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Instead, I take a lecture course, hashing out the basics. Differences ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... philosophy, which says that all "educated" people should have a common

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008