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• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  fundraisers in Lobby 10 Making good friends who cook for themselves Creating a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... Psi, cooks its own meals on weeknights, and in return for helping cook

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  fact, one reason for our choice of picnicing in Sandwich. It had nothing ... in that one, want to write about it?) four or five days early for ... glassblowing demonstration and so decided not to hang around for another one in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  broke the ice. We both felt very silly for meeting in Canary Wharf. I ... -way presentation. In a two-way conversation, for example, you can ask "and how about ... their interviews conducted in Starbucks). My advice for the MIT interview

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  of ads looking for long-term roommates (I have places to be in the ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... . For what it's worth, my significant other Joanna lived in Fifth West ... In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... face made for a virile sensory cocktail that stayed in my nerves

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  responsible for training and evaluating over 100 cadets in their transition to ... glider on the South Island for a week through Youth Glide New Zealand. In ... , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in ... script is still in its early stages; even so, I'm so excited for its ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview ... Apollo guidance system, for the first mission in 1969 and then also the ... Ideas competition, let me fill you in. MIT’s very own Maia Weinstock

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... , and revised, revised, revised. In order to compete for scholarships ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  !! Get involved! In high school, I tried robotics and science olympiad for ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green ... Frisbee game. I was in a wheelchair for a day. Then on crutches. I learned ... trembling in the road for fifteen, twenty minutes, convinced that I'd broken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te ... my textbook by Richard Taruskin) has been an acquired taste for me. In ... people singing unintelligibly in a foreign language for FOUR HOURS. Or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  environments for problems, solutions, and reflections (not shown in the ... in Shrek the Musical for Next Act before COVID shut it down). While I ... tickets for ~$40), which means I've seen a good handful of musicals while in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  -nighters for fun than for schoolwork in the past four years. In chronological ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... grant proposals for a writing project on biomedical engineering in Vietnam

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  , even though I knew I could be a "fan for a living" by studying fans in ... So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790: Media Theories and Methods, the introductory course for the Comparative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  walking speed.) A few weeks ago, I decided to stay in Cambridge for the ... ’t intending to get an orange bike. I was just looking for something in decent ... the bike for commuting for the past few years. It wasn’t in the best

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab. A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills: Unity: ❌ C#: 👍 Developing for VR headsets: ❌ Developing for

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  , sometimes for worse, but so often for the better. see you in a few weeks ... morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way imaginable - we have the same romanized last names, we're both in the same

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning team consisted ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016