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• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  semester began to dwindle down, everyone seemed to have summer plans like ... I had nothing to do and how it was such a waste of time. Now one day ... still have all these matches to play! Using what I know now, I can make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... . life is so blissful right now. having space to be creative and obsess

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  States Air Force. If you’re a current MIT student, you may have seen us ... ” before moving on with your day, but have you ever wondered - what exactly do we do? While I’m sure you’re dying to know all about of our

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  story is that life is so much richer when you're able to have fun ... Beantown)) One of my resolutions for this semester is to spend more time ... began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  I have to cheer at a basketball game again tonight. Go Tech and ... related to school, social life, the dorms, food (have you ever noticed how ... have heard many times that MIT has more NCAA-recognized sports programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  (or 1510-1710 hrs, as we like to say), we have Leadership Lab, or LLAB ... anyways, back to this Sunday's FLX. After learning these skills (and having to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  we do "A Salute to Walking," since we have sheet music for "Walk This ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your ... would be helpful for us to know about your circumstances, you are welcome
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  passive. Many times, I’ll feel too tired or socially drained to initiate ... belief you have, would you do it?” I reached out to another friend F because I thought she’d have interesting responses to those questions and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton-Conner realizes this and in order to promote inter-floor relations they have ... huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  better because I didn't take enough time to heal. And so I'm listening to ... manageable. A lot of healing is out of your hands. It takes time and patience and coming to terms with the fact that some things are out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  , you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the ... , and passion. So, choose your activities wisely and try to maintain some ... play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  time! I had been before, but I'd never drove there myself. I drove to ... . They're not wrong -- I do work three jobs. But they have little to no ... of my life. I am extremely touched by anyone who takes the time to read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... the world to have a productive but unremarkable career. So it goes ... have fantasized about waking up, going to class, eating, working

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a small committee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  to stop the boiling yes, do that three times wait until the water ... DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands ... too add soy sauce and sesame oil to taste (optional) FILLING (MEAT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ," I said. "I hadn't even turned eighteen, at the time. I was talking to ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any ... 's been nine months since I first read that post, but I only got the time to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  movement or location or time period. It's like learning to recognize the ... for me to take all of those classes. So I'll have to settle with 21M.235 ... , and an instrument this size would have required 6-10 small children to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013