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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD ... sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be ... state other than “violently joyful?” Like, I feel I could explode into a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  actually made a blank google doc. I guess I have been afraid that when I ... bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  had a massive potluck Thanksgiving dinner with our housemaster Nina and ... (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  Googling. If you find even more, post a link in the comments and I will add ... so that they are not as large. Put the sweet potatoes in a casserole dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for

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

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new freshman experience class (21M.013J/21A.113J) which I hope that some of you ... server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more enthusiasm. This blog post will come in two parts: a genshin advertisement, and

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... contaminated part off and drop it in this big yellow disposal bin with a caution

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  figure things about. Then, we would fill out a google form and would be ... 't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while, so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a mediocre manner? Coming into MIT, I thought about this a lot. Even before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  had collected beforehand through a Google form.    2:10 pm - We ... create community for South Asians and provide a space to talk about ... is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  A: god it's already new year's eve B: yeah there's still some people around campus A: i mean we're around B: no like B: other people B: doing work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here's a recent one: Jim Olson '74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Run Godspeed

  

  Have a good time. Click

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Google Calendar, any event that evoked a strong emotion, I wrote down. This ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... , but I figured I should doing something a little more intentional. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  the show. people had submitted ideas via a Google Form, and we went ... a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022