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• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... the sodium-lit image appear in the bath of developer, I pretty much left ... Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can ... perceptions can't possibly be correct. I'm just a freshman.  I don't have years

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  logistics. Alas! Tickets sold out hours in advance of Bruce's appearance! I ... appearing in the verbal section. I thought I could make this blog educational ... ." Seriously, how many people can there be in Boston who even know who Bruce

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... really focus on me. I’ll reach this sweet spot where I can just take care ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  , and sat down cross-legged on the carpet. I pulled out loose papers. What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like ... straightening and aligning and buttoning that can be awkward for someone in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  her shirt inside out), in life as well - one will experience very bad weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , it's necessary to record your observations, so I whipped out some ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and ... interviewer in your area. You can always write to [email protected] to ask ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... in the classroom, that's not true. I think probably one of the biggest ... in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  once while I tried to cruise and swore out loud in front of a family with ... The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  it out of the park. I'm still sitting in awe. It's my purest form of ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  introduction--unless of course you've never heard of him, in which case I'll just ... -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... working out the kinks, but I tried it out during the biology lecture and it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  makes this sound deep. Figure it out in the comments I guess. We graded ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  were affected by yesterday's events, and I hope that we can come out of ... green building: This really was a terrible event, and I can't believe ... friend Ali F. '16's hair and it came out great :) I also dyed my hair with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . Turns out it was my toaster! I just had no idea it was there in the first ... I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... way. I think Selena was in a sorority recruitment event.) So, like, don

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  be an EMT. If it gets overwhelming, I can give up helping others ... the future! And you can do so many things with them - that's why I love ... When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016