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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... Awareness week, so also took time to prepare for our philanthropic event. All week, we will be selling carnations and irises to raise money for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , for having taking the reins on my life and fighting my way to get here ... a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... , this weekend, working on a puzzlehunt, from 6 pm on friday to midnight on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption ... . Someone who knows what they're looking for and what they're going to do ... about someone, I want to cook for them and make sure they're eating well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... enrichment programs as the coasts. I like Bebras' focus on accessibility, both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I ... 't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external ... never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... life at college. And my advice for you is precisely that. To echo Paul ... upperclassmen are up and about on campus, trying to meet all of you and hear your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... normally everyone has ample space to live and enjoy. For example, my current ... management. Feel free to keep asking questions, and I'll answer as I get them.

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  effort for nothing. we spent all that time preparing to run away, we got a ... likely to fail the second. cj: … dan: just stay with your parents for the ... on a daily basis, and you were alone. you stayed in your room for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the ... you what a relief it is to be where we are. [read more] Ben takes on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  now live with on our campus. According to the job description, RAs serve ... . Responsibility for the house is shared by all and everyone is expected to do their ... " and mine tend to be more of the breakfast variety. Each semester during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... -BC person behind. since we all want to cook for ourselves, our options are ... though? we'll be on campus, surrounded by people, able to go wherever we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... back on the life he has lived I think has a natural fascination for all ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  shape and we could probably go out on submission (send it to publishers ... had changed so much in the past six months. I didn’t want to go out on ... ="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’s impossible to sleep though and great for pre-midterm naps. (Accidental seven ... chair, which collapsed when I tried to fit more than three people on it. A ... walls of the box, exposing space for you to put things inside. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  consulting (?). These are pictures for a how-to on board assembly. In ... video. Heck with that talk to Daft Punk they would love you for it ... we'll use that money to develop an enclosure for them, etc ,etc" I don

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  ’s advantages and benefits. I half expected the next pamphlet to offer me free ... without experiencing the college firsthand, there was no way for me to know ... best known for his contribution to the Human Genome Project, teaches 7

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  Observatory to give talks, mine on pulsars and Raphael's on the exploration of ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on ... , and tried not to think about the fact that we'd been in the car for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013