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• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  shops here in Boston and Cambridge and give you the dish on what's hot and what's cold. Dinner ended a little late on Saturday, and I wasn't able to visit Toscanini's on Mass. Ave, but fear not, there was a Shaw's across

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to ... , basically a program where you pay a lot of money to live on a college campus ... recommend these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  class nonetheless. We mostly focused on learning the basic poses that most ... would go move slowly and lay down in a dark room with spa music on ... killer). This is common for a lot of PE classes and my one complaint. On

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of ... + my plushies[/caption] (On a side note, it's always nice to discover ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] totoro rice balls :)[/caption] Mixed feelings on the Totoro

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... . They are people who Harvard students hire to work on their dreams. I ... channeled to the Muti water project as an undergrad, and now use on the alumni

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  of free time on campus. For some background, we are 100% self ... Bento on Newbury Street because Asian food, specifically sushi, is my ... of my favorite periods of time on campus. I liked working full-time on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who ... philosophy. And I won’t deny that progress can sometimes creep up on you. I am ... requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  leave on the paper, I make with intention because I only have time for so ... into marks on a paper is why most models are nude and why these sessions ... this effect on the grayish patch on the model's shoulder on the left. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  'll come, but I don't really want to see the glass flowers [more on these ... was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on ... glass flowers a lot for me this time around: The docent: on my previous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  picture on Instagram. Minneapolis and St. Paul turned into my stomping ... why. I should have. It would've been so easy--shooting her a DM on ... game that we used to be obsessed with. She was going on vacation and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... the rice and some water, mixed, and kept it on cook. After a few minutes ... measuring cup for rice with the oats and just follow the line on the pot. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  lecture videos one would see on [annotation note="MIT Open Course ... snowball of second-guessing my answers. In most humanities classes, on topics ... bad questions or [annotation note="big emphasis on very"]very wrong

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  formal CS class, and yet I have spent the past four years working on one ... passionate about doing things hands-on or building things. But I also think ... aerospace for less hands-on things: a lot of modeling and CS, some data

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  even just students in general. This was a confession posted recently on ... sitting at my desk in my room and Emma, Aidan, and Raymond were sat on my ... every magnet on the fridge, in every stupid little souvenir. Hell, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  and discusses a lot of interesting topics on how AIs use maching ... our own!) computational model and write a paper on it, which i'm excited ... should apply to the Media Lab for grad school. stay tuned on that. East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  got a low grade on an assignment in a science class and the teacher ... MIT. I did my best on it, I just did badly anyway. My classmates ... dumped on by the jerks in my high school class. So whenever I was asked, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  , we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to ... * advance pioneering work on AI’s ethical use and societal impact. Most ... teaching and research on relevant policy and ethics — to better ensure that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... , and I am good at it, so it's okay that I spend my time on these other

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  weekend and I can give you a sticker, too. It can even have glitter on it ... on dumplings. Come learn the basic fold, or just perform a metabolic reduction on food. 13:17 - 14:17 LN2 Truffles and the Chocolate Nash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash ... frenzy on my decision day. Why, exactly? When I forced myself to articulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013