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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (Lunar New Year themed, in the McCormick Green Room!), but I felt like this ... through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of ... -up[/caption]When I walked in, instead of the flowers and greenery I was expecting, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for ... performances (people litter a lot in cities; MIT also seems to be littered with ... ever really escapes "technical difficulties", at any level (in my most

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Media Lab research areas; documenting research progress; ethical issues in ... required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media ... also counts for CI-H? This makes it the best class in the world by itself

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... harder and more important than they actually are. Believe in yourself, take ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... getting burned in pixels, leaving ghost images on my screen. This happens ... , like Best Buy, even give you your money back in store credit for a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  itself? To leave space in a schedule, to work out and think, to walk places ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just ... off in their head. I never thought I was done growing, but I think I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  and humanities magazine. Editor-in-Chief Michelle X. '20 presented the ... . After celebrating, we also planned for an upcoming fundraiser in Lobby 10 ... cookie-decorating event run by Women in Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... 's in New York City. We gotta go!" Later that night, one of our mutual ... who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... that there are two chem majors who live in your hall. One of them stays ... light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... hacking, the near-infinite research opportunities, MIT's mission in the ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists ... been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking busily, people running around in lab coats with clip boards, and caution

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... called Old Rag back in VA.   [carousel image1="116082" image2 ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... earrings, and suddenly, we were in the Simmons Crafts Lounge, searching for ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... 'm very grateful that this is the stress that I have in my life, as opposed ... think it's especially concentrated in this first year of being an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  more questions than it answered. “Two dozen pumpkins in just a few hours ... in some purple glass dust (called “frit”). While we’re here, let’s also ... glass and shape it in a tiny optic mold. Then— Oh no, we were slightly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023