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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it ... , get a good night's sleep the night before. What happens afterwards is ... without a shared meal is a sad one. Clean your room every day. Returning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to ... I am learning to bow my head, breathe, and move on. This is unlike ... is for girls and girls are weak and i Am nOt LIkE oThEr Gi

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... means psets, a midterm, a final, and daily lectures. The pace is definitely way faster in IAP, and having only one class is a weird feeling -- I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  really been bothering me ever since I have been home - that is, creativity ... and my 4th year in college. My passion in life is cancer research - day in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders ... … 9.24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System is my last and most ... course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the ... universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig ... they have discovered so far... What they have discovered so far is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Caution: this post is probably NSFW. Two Decembers ago, when I was ... around here. This post is a photographic journey through the gingerbread ... ("The" is essential), organized a second gingerbread decorating party

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... -to-take-on-the-world prefrosh, is now a slightly jaded, very depressed upperclassmen. It did ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... more frequent ^^”). What I actually want to talk about today is really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true ... the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the ... personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas have penguins on them. It is decidedly winter. But at pika, it's spring ... pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  , which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT ... . With this, my description is almost done. I’d rather show the hack than ... awesome is that? I rather enjoy such happy endings.          BONUS

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to ... important takeaway for any prefrosh reading this is to please not worry about ... pressures is very conducive to happiness. So, even though I'm currently being

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named ... , feel a bit less homesick. Butterstick's human, Shannon, is a Residential ... stay at Simmons, she brought Butterstick - who is hypoallergenic - along

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... , trying again and again to master the tire swing (which, mind you, is no ... amazing and diverse place - all of MIT is, for that matter - and there

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  the knowledge that life after MIT is filled with rainbows, unicorns (and ... go is. In the past two years, I have been to: the Netherlands, Belgium ... short version is that after a summer spent questioning my major, I decided

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn't hard is having dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by ... publications and 39 patents, but don't let that intimidate you. This is an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  which is sometimes shortened to Trinity which is extremely confusing but uhh I digress). What this all means is that this summer has six weeks

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... offer advice/tutorials for younger students. Their ambition is "to become

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012