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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... At MIT, every student has an advisor -- in fact, throughout their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  students at MIT could do their own projects instead of helping Professors ... your own previous research. 4. Dan commented, "Hmm I looked at one of ... interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  dreamer must order at least one bowl of ramen[/annotation] and attempt to ... the belly. you look at the towering monstrosity of a bowl in front of ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... the sunset. And at night there was always something to do. Parties with ... strange. Toward the end of his visit, she'd asked, "What are you supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Evaluation Keep notes from reading. At the end of the summer, review them ... Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... of it (recognizing it as idealistic, possibly self-centered and a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits ... and not at all reflective of our general government process lol ... and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  festivals involve a good deal of standing still for hours at time, which means ... , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  depleting it at a great rate. But as I've heard many of my peers say more and ... unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  something that's made me view it all differently. At the essence of what he ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... 's least favorites. At the top of each poop entry is the averaged ratings and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... , if this were a normal semester, i'd be dancing upwards of six hours a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... desire, start a growing collection of Digimon plushies at the foot of my ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  of the two main hip hop groups at MIT"]Mocha Moves ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  realize, about yourself and others, at only this level of understanding. But ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... 's gotten to know me better than nearly anyone else at MIT. He inspires me to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  . (Jessie lives at East Campus, which is one of the less restrictive dorms ... make?) Also, if you don't paint the room back at the end of the year, you ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005