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• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  comes with a few years of distance. i think i just need to be stronger. i ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... feel a little less alone, a little more grounded as i try to keep my head

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  try to do so without sacrificing too much of myself. It's a balancing ... will come a time where I won't be there to say something. This happens ... infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... complaining; I like boba as much as anyone, but smoothies, man. There's a Jamba ... to renewable energy initiatives instead. Again, not complaining

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry ... indeed fun, you just need to show why - and be convincing. Does that make ... want to hear. Should I consider answering in a more conventional

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  between my love for art and a self-imposed pressure to create things–but not ... a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... . I don’t have much to say about this class… I did indeed learn some

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when ... hadn’t blogged, shown up to lab, or spent much time with friends. I felt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... wondered if moving across the country to school was taking a huge risk. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  wanted to see how much food we could make with a very low budget. Here are ...   1 Week for $8: Bettina I don’t tend to cook as much as Gloria does ... between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a ... to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively ... (~12 admissions officers) does travel across the country, to about 75

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  who wanted to create a dress with circular shapes and unconventional ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... that kids need to be perfect. We get rewarded by U.S. News rankings for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... residents. These reasons are, I imagine, pretty much the same as anyone else’s--to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... volunteering to a passion for languages to butterfly collecting...it all had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has ... have much better luck entering as a beauty. The reason that I've never ... -respect for watching reality shows. My hypothesis is that you can create a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  display does that to me; it keeps my mind off of the thoughts of MIT-as-a ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... . If you're emailing your EC, you may want a subject line that refers to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to ... a company called Kovio, which apparently was founded by MIT alum Colin

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  was a much-needed reminder that beyond the dog-eat-dog rat race, cooking ... understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... garnished with a tomato rose. The Dantean heart recipe was the result of much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022