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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like ... see, which can make it kiiiinda stressful. We often get questions about what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  Cambridge. I think a lot of the students here are used to it, which is amazing ... at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  only take technical classes, it can quickly become extremely draining ... they love and find it’s not so bad after all. I’ve talked to both ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I didn’t expect it to this quickly; if I was able to do so many things ... more independent— I’ve had a few opportunities to live alone during my ... for the first time, and found that I really enjoyed it. Being able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , it's time to say farewell to the class of 2009 and hello to the class ... they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class ... was fantastic. I used to think of the arrival of Spring simply as a

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  use for myself. Anyways, when it comes to these forms, no one ever tells ... never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... injections so we can talk and I can let my mind wander. What I'm trying to say

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  papers and desperately look for excuses to not start studying. A quick ... , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury ... it also means that I'll be out of comission for 3 full days. Time to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  looking for new friends to make. DropBox, Facebook, Google, Apple, Space ... stretch all the way down to Mass Ave and around the corner. It took a long ... and a good fraction of the freshman class from going to check it out

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show ... Globe responded to the push its readers had to reading their news online. When it comes to the internet the key is to have it respond to you

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  be good if you could use this class and its resources to their full ... from the know-it-all to the struggler can be confusing and upsetting, and ... tutor: I think talking to her is very likely to help you. It is not like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  to the next time I can swing by Pika! With my schedule being the way it is, I can only really make it on Thursdays, which is a bit of a bummer ... , and it was really tasty. When you're done, you're supposed to go to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And ... 't really relevant to my life anymore, so I think it's time to set some new

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , and a few places off-campus. You can also sometimes use it to buy things ... the basement of the student center, and use it to buy food at dining ... what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true ... ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... "Red Sox Swap" instead, swapping socks (of all colors) -- you can't make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took ... funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes ... rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  whether you like it or not) he had to entertain. As the conductor of a ... memory (not to mention he was 110% prepared for the rehearsal). But it was a trick to make the kids more comfortable with him, and it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014