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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at best. An ... TGTG;[/annotation] just don't be too greedy.  Here are the places I ... I'm pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn't the reason why tens

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  being social to me never leaving the library/my room in order to study ... and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  and they reconsidered whether it was the best time to be building a new ... . As is often the case, there is that worry about me being scammed or ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  Queen's major recording studio. The statue can be seen on the cover of ... to myself, five of which can't be printed in this blog. The sixth was ... around 2 PM, but the area wouldn't be open until 5 PM. Well, that was no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! https://youtu.be/oyFQVZ2h0V8?si=Tx2tBog4BB2hei4B Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  going, I can't possibly be the only one...

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I ... being done on batteries (designed by viruses!) that can be woven into ... / Some pretty cool research and development being done - it's stuff like

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me or Matt - understandably, we represent MIT, with which you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows ... feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap ... share with us through the application process.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... plate), but tired stereotypes shouldn't be one of them. Now, if you ... matters to you. To them, I say: please don't let the availability

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  course. The reason I said my sample was skewed might be illuminating ... So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14 hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  expected there be maybe 30 or 40 frames. but when I opened the folder I ... hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the way until the day it came out. We (the exact same crew) also created

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on-the ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn't exactly ideal. But that's how scheduling works sometimes... the schools call

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  myself. I try to be nice to myself. And it works, mostly; and the days are ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  , but the disambiguation would be helpful. Lesson to be learned from this ... should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011