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• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  maybe like the end of IAP. I'll get back to you on that.) Day 9. The ... more difficult to get around if you plan to eat on campus rather than ... you!), how to get around campus, and how to pick a living group (SO MUCH

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time ... to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  , de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. How is it that I get to live every ... get to feel understood and seen, that you understand a view on who I am and choose to walk it through day after day? how is that I get to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the ... college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... something like this: ROOMMATE: Hi! How are you? It's nice to finally meet you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  stay overnight on campus beginning on September 30th, and since we need two weeks notice prior to your arrival, we've already begun taking ... In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  opportunity to spell a little something that we hope gets put on the http ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized

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

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  to refrain from the obvious commentary on the drive through Iowa-I come ... there. Except to say that the radio station we were listening to on our ... await their pre-race pasta. On Friday we went to the course again, just

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get ... significance. I get stressed out if I'm not taking every opportunity to see my ... me want to postpone getting my diploma. I worked hard to make it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  take your life, how a single professor can change what you want to do for ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... cool experience. Free transportation: MIT students get free access to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  of 9 to 1. How do you get time? You write. You argue persuasively for ... you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also ... an hour and a half I feel like I'm at least starting to get skating ... about how he's going to kill himself because Lucie was unfaithful. Then he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... delicious thing on the planet. 4. Unplugging pressure cookers can lead to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... 'll have no further comment on that today. I love to read and write. I read

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... go through these cycles. Don't get me wrong; I am glad that I go to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you’re ... is to say, if you’re a curious person with an open mind, you can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005