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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  , when you're hard at work putting off a problem set, you realize that you ... along MIT's basement paths and provide your friendly lurkers (i.e., me ... closes and you receive your bounty through a slot at the bottom! Ice cream

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  questions regarding your specific circumstances. What does this mean? We're willing to work with your individual circumstances, whatever they may be ... to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of ... : "Your Diagnostic score, while generally acceptable, showed at least one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... acoustic benches that a lot of people miss. If you're ever visiting MIT, you ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines ... vegetarian for a month was so I could write about it on my blog. So, you're ... BSO above; MIT pays for your college card, so you can get pretty good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  becoming an MIT student???" I'd be happy to answer your questions (or direct ... could take you in a fight is that while you're worshipping at the altar of ... varieties than you're likely to find just about anywhere else. Who wants to go

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your ... flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  cranberries. Cook on high for five hours or on low for eight hours while you’re ... small chance you’ll be in the emergency room and if you left your oven on ... , so that each half has half of the stem). If you’re under 18 or not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and ... utter silence. but, hey, i get it. turning on your camera and talking ... questions and I always appreciate how thorough you are with your answers. I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  your food wouldn’t do it’s job if you made the microwave bigger.  Pineapple has flesh-eating enzymes in it that eat proteins off of your tongue, and this can make it feel like it’s burning your mouth. That, or MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  , where your element (usually) x belonging in the language means it has some ... around x. Closed sets have the property that if your set A has a sequence ... . Intro analysis teaches you to be really careful about: when you're proving

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  the rest of your life goes and it is valid to want financial security ... with yourself, peace will find a way into your life. it will define and ... . rummage around your heart, find a cause, take all the grief, put a ribbon on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  -definiteness: For all x,y in your space, we want d(x,y) to be bigger than or equal to ... , late in November, I got an email from Larry saying "P.S. Paige, your ... how many opportunities can come out of MIT from your own imagination

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  with your controller and score as many points as you can. The ... season. Every competing robot has to play the same game. Maybe you're ... winding journey, and it sometimes takes watching your first robot completely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  this is pre-planned as you build your character and backstory, a lot of ... perception, etc. If these rolls are high, you can maybe notice things that your ... are low, well, even if you as a player notice it, your character will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... hidden, but visible for everyone to see. how you spend your days is how you spend your life. Inspired by my desire to spend more time in the way

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  first internship." "Your first internship? That must've been years ago ... . You take a class, and it ends. The research project you're working on ... said. "You're the only person with an actual job that I talked to about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  about exploring sexuality, at your own pace and in your own time. About listening to your body and respecting your boundaries. About brief ... between you and your desires. I wrote about tinder dates. When I pitched

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  would ask. I did art, but I wasn’t an artist. They shook their heads. “You’re ... part of your life, you’re an artist.” A few of them urged me to consider ... at this Google Drive link. If you’re interested in a physical copy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  things that come into your life at just the right time and tell you exactly ... when you leave, it lingers in your memories like a ghost. Maybe that ... , will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future. It always

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021