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• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  of olive oil readily available in my hall’s kitchen and Cantu hair ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  !” moments where you see things you are learning in the lecture halls applied ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread ...   It’s (well, it was, at the time of writing) IAP, and all the dining halls except one are closed. Fortunately, we can cook

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  views of Boston and try food that wasn't from a dining hall. [carousel ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... funny way of working themselves out. I’m definitely applying to MISTI ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per night, on average Four birthdays on my dorm hall (one of them was mine ... This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  can look down the entire length of your hall and see EVERYTHING.. 7 ... What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  something to offer is an incredible gift. When I applied for StartMIT, I was ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  chairs (a couple of hall residents who are the liaisons to house management ... its way into a corner of the hall, was swiftly consumed in full by an ... broken record emailing the hall with all kinds of displeasure and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... University Digital Gaming Society (CUDGS) A group of gamers who come together ... off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  of these requirements, but I’ll apply anyways and see what happens ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006