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• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  mantra for me. Don’t be fooled, accepting that all was well and would ... encountered them. I don’t share this story to make you worried or afraid of travel, but I don’t think I adequately prepared myself for what I had to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  onto this blog, though. I don’t want to be *that* kind of college blogger ... revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... Hampshire. Some people don't even know where New Hampshire is, let alone

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... competition, "Cry if you win because you're happy, but don't cry if you lose ... hands on it. As for "the ugly" side of life here, I don't know too much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  of going on my computer; even if I don't like the sticker that much, I ... the multiple stickers that I’ve found I don’t have room for on my laptop ... small ADT sticker (I unfortunately don't have any DT stickers, but dancing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or when I really, really don’t feel like p-setting. At the end there are ... ’re in class. Don’t cook the meat for too long or it will become tough

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most ... appreciate my TA, though. "i don't want to make you feel obligated to ... , and afterwards, i take the T home because it's cold and dark and i don't

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  are a lot of elements to a residential experience that we don't think ... community. Conversely, if you don't have enough singles, then seniors and ... , but it's critical that things don't get too isolated. As a freshman, one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  , the people who choose to go to school differ from those who don’t in ways beyond having a diploma or not. We don’t have a good “control” group ... seem to increase after the policy was implemented, we don’t know if this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  that I don't just casually enjoy feels like a crime. Admitting that I ... sometimes. Yeah I have good times still don't get me wrong, but I don't think ... studying has been rough and i dont have the energy to keep up with my friends

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  programming or computer science and don't know some terms as this section goes along, don't worry - this blog post is meant to serve as an overview of ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  vegetables when you don’t feel like putting in effort or eating hot dogs beef ... ’ve dated at MIT. (I don’t get it either.) Masha makes wraps in WILG’s tiny ... cup of milk, and a small amount of salt. Don’t add salt if you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  we don't have to embrace current norms as the default. This school is ... eradicated, and many students today don't even know about their existence ... don't use all their meal swipes. To pay at the door, lunch is ~$16 and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  what I should study. I didn't even like chemistry that much. I don't even ... on that besides don't waste your time on a liberal arts degree and you ... Ph.D. interviews, they don't seem as impossible.  I know (and knew then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  chuckle whenever I read it."]I don't think they were super complete ... feeling. I don't think I realized how much I relied on writing to feel ... Hunter, New York. Was kind of crazy to see it. HOBBIES, WORK, and ME I don't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  because of that they don't feel real. It doesn’t feel like it’s been three ... anymore.  I don’t tell her all of these things. I tell myself that there ... . But really, the reason I don’t tell her is because I don’t know why I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  values. So in order to get that, you need to make sure that you don’t crash ... like, “Why don’t we host our own tournament?” and I was like, “Huh, I’m a ... do stuff, CTWC in June, I don’t know. I’ll just figure it out. I don’t

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  -script ends.  i didn’t know what to do next. when i don’t know what to do, i ... game rules that you wouldn’t lose your stuff when you died. i don’t like ... known among people who play the game; and i really don’t know much about

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  morning routine slowly—I don't believe in breakfast, so I skip it, but even ... classes on Friday. Jerry's classes don't start until the afternoon, but he ... don't have a dinner break—I've got something from 5 to 7, and from 7 to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  , I head over to the meeting room. I’m presenting second, which I don’t ... solicit advice than to deliver [annotation note="because I don’t have ... Monday, but I don’t really feel like starting any of the items now because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  a bug I don't quite know how to fix, but I usually just run to Joe or ... Peloton at my apartment, but unfortunately I don't think MIT has Pelotons. I ... classes. Most of my commitments don't start until 5, so I use this time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021