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• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... families only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice ... Carboat. MIT students and alums love creating their own venues for watching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  friends and old haunts, but there's not yet much pressure to make post ... . My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular ... excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  inexperienced and mostly did experimental work, it looks like I'm going to start ... , but I'm really looking forward to attending talks and physical chemistry ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  meat to make a sandwich and then putting barbecue potato chips inside of ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  Boston roughly once a month to go out and eat and explore the city. But ... simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much ... conflicting events and schedules, we managed to get some good movies in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  registration. You could all take it with me if you wanted to (and you should! It ... jazz (and confession, I've actually taken most of it once before I ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  learned so much through my Spanish class and I'm excited to pursue more of ... didn't mind the work too much. It was really fun to put my all into my final projects. CMS.300 My final project for CMS.300 was to create a 10

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... "]showed it to my close friends and all the bloggers[/annotation] and gotten

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  -Conner's culture is pretty much defined by fire alarms. Yeah, fire alarms and that ... doomed. But doomed awesomely. And since it's better to show, not tell, I ... department was going to find us there and yell at us (they have threatened to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... , fortune-telling, henna-painting, arts and crafts, mahjong, and much more. We each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are ... have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and ... at MIT: And individual tape recorders you can use to listen to them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... explore new interests and experiences. Push myself to do things I would have ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  combination of spices. But when I went off to college and tried to make the same ... have to do is chop up the meat and/or vegetables, put it in the rice cooker, and press a button. This is so much easier than pan-frying where

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary ... ’m just rolling with the punches and hoping the early start points to an ... essentially look through the listings and decide on three to apply to. If you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  actual day of my arrival, and through the energy-conserving act of copying-and ... afternoon unpacking and finished it off by heading out to a barbecue with my ... outside, made it back to the dorm and spiraled around until I met my room

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Music and laughter. There is so much to see, to feel, to live in. To write ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know ... Everywhere. There is so much to be inspired by. Classes. Activities

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  a database to track upkeep of safety equipment, and creating ... questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... travel to Morelos, Mexico City and Jalisco." Chance '14 (Israel/Tulsa, OK

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013