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• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  and remember that nothing is ever that deep that you need to major in ... , you know? Accept all cookies (or, how much of yourself to give away ... it so much worse and you give advice to others about how to fix their

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  does the average MIT student have to watch TV?" Throughout my first two ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  tests are not perfect, and should not be used to punish anyone. But, does ... at all happy about my SAT scores and felt a need to take the TOEFL in ... look at scores? Like other schools, does MIT convert ACT scores to SAT

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , occasionally each app needs to do an update. And if you let the updates pile up ... doesn't have to mean that you have two selves. But it does mean that your ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  might not be able to exist in the way we want to once we move back in, the ... without the people? Branding is important, but you don't need to wear a ... If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of time 3 main constraints for my envisioned project:  I needed to ... /physics background as an MIT student preparing to take 2.678/2.007.  I needed to work ... ’ve started saying fries for chips and chips for crisps, much to their parents

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to ... , although i do take, it is taking that you need to survive. i don't know. i ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  : the rule does not apply to freshman-freshman relationships, but I ... lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... 't belong here. The last thing you need is to get into a relationship and go

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  much as I could, it was never enough to more-than-pass.  I learned how to ... Jewish people ages 18-26 and it  was so much fun!  We went to so many ... everything needs to be absolutely perfect to get a good result.  And it takes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  people’s needs the way she does; I think I’m close, but I have more books ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  future, and what i need now is a more reliable way to ground myself in the ... have been a tremendous help to me, but i think i also need to make some ... the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  turned to when they realized there was so much to be done because I already ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more beyond comics and static images. And Lydia may or may not have suggested that I try to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  —and is—a lovely museum, with so much to see. I had just started my journey ... distraction rather than the primary thing that I'm doing. It's so much harder to ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  're you eating/drinking? SO. MUCH. BUTTER. After listening to hours of ... much. There's a combination of things that I listen to and watch while I ... . Unless he’s decided I’ve been paying too much attention to the applicants

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  . Nonetheless, I want a year of assertiveness, eagerness. It's much easier to know ... I need to destroy everything around me to move on in the first place ... it up too much only to become envious of the lifestyle I vehemently

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  , or "what needs to be improved," simply because things are much more ... a much needed vacation soon (for me, starting next week). If you call ... ." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  many branches break when there is so much to be done here, safer on the ... life in a fiery blaze. Only then does Walton choose to do something more ... is that “first years need to learn how to be independent at MIT”, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022