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• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... . That being said, here is some memery I've committed since I came to campus: 1. alternate versions of our mascot, tim the beaver [carousel image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... is make truffles! The Laboratory for Chocolate Sciences at MIT is a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  questionable at times—one of the notable ones being baked potatoes—so we wanted ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could sense something special about them from our first interaction. The ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... . [caption id="attachment_90476" align="alignright" width="179"] The industrial revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  As of last week or so, I've taken and passed the following PE classes ... prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate ... the GPRs (General Pirate Requirements) (I just came up with that. No one

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at Central Square. It's not as good as the actual Sapporo Ramen at Porter, (or ... 're craving. Then, just off Newbury Street not far after crossing the Harvard

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  really, can you guess where the edible part is??? I couldn't be sure. Here ... Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... in the Peking Duck - Beijing's most famous dish. Over dinner, we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice, let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early ... sleep so well? You keep telling me to live rightTo go to bed before the daylightBut then you wake up for the sunriseYou know you don't gotta pretend

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... until you bring the experience full circle. It wasn't until Monday morning ... . Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... 's not the real reason I'm posting. (Actually, it is, but I figured you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007