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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... out but starting to set, and really enjoyed the run. So much so that I ... until I reached the airport. I needed to go home. And so go home I did. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

    1 Week for $8: Bettina I don’t tend to cook as much as Gloria does ... wanted to see how much food we could make with a very low budget. Here are ... putting down things. Put approximate prices next to your needs and then the

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

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  new and colorful as they once did, to the wide-eyed first-year moving to ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... carefully crafted prose, while others take a much more casual approach to ... colleagues, Bintou (thanks Bintou!). It’s been a go-to spot whenever I need a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the time to host the events we need to get the hype around Loop again ... the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren ... word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to ... while to accept that I needed it, and I worked through another p-set alone ... realization that was easy to have once I started noticing all the things people

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... for others to know us, we need to be vulnerable so others will do the same, we need to take the pains to understand so others will do the same

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  , I realized I needed to actually take action to fix my fifth week flag ... need help. All you need to do is ask.  Don't be afraid to seek help from ... 'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  student for once in my semester. I felt guilty because I spent so much time ... talk with her, to which she gave me a pep talk about how I need to stop ... more work I need to do. It's obvious that I'm still unhappy with myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hand, it was time to resurrect my life once again and continue along its ... forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  is so much more i want to learn that i just have not had time for. so ... after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit ... choice to take one class outside my major but decided to stick to math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  need to get above a 75 (the C- cut off) to pass. 6.009 I will ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge ... ? Well, it's this wonderful machine shop that MIT students can use to make ... taken some photos for you guys to see these machines :( But this just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... supervisor, past mentors, and other people whose advice I value, I decided to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  sororities with horror movies, so it's nice to see them in a different, MUCH ... if you try"]I-didn’t need to-know-this moments.[/annotation] The Plont ... much. But with this one, it turned out to be a good laugh after a long

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  test was. I asked him where I needed to get tested, and he told me the Z ... awkwardness. It does get better, and god is it still so much fun.   This ... clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... . Now I know that there's much that I don't know, and once the notions of ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009