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• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... Vincent. These are the small subtleties that no one but a black person can ... and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Road. There are campfires in driveways, where you can stand by strangers ... -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... medical test for broken toes and bullet wounds is whether or not you can ... I can even "think" about running, and at least 2 weeks on crutches. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh ... and bananas are basically the only things you can depend on on when the ... powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  banana-flavored granola bars? There must be. Granola bars can taste like ... can feel my youth dripping away, slowly, like melting bananas. 10:30 pm ... managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... the number of international citizens we can admit, currently about 5% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos ... Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  of year that the days get shorter, colder, and rainier, which can ... can make up a science GIR right now. Let's call it, I dunno, 19 ... get less posts, while MIT Confessions gets more posts. [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Arial; we can tell even if it's blurry. Its header, "Facilities", is in ... bundled with Helvetica, but it does come with Arial. In fact, if you can ... my last post about typography. A place can set its tone through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... cute little gallery which you can visit by clicking here. 6. A hall has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... religiously and ended up learning so much from the class. [caption id ... this post seems deceptively small but I don't have much to say about the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  hands hold yours? [gift] you can hand me so much with your words ... artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... days of long hours to finish the assembly from start to finish. You can ... first "tech-y" job. And occasionally, since I'm a legal adult now, I get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of ... ; because you want to get away from your parents as soon as possible, start ... class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... fungus can be traced to human influence. Many researchers believe that a ... population consists primarily of one-year-olds—though axolotls can live up to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself  

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  outside and soak in some much-needed vitamin d just one more exam

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019