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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  set in the McCormick penthouse, attempted to create edible meals, and ... you want to hear about or see, ask me questions, buy me tickets to the ... deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to ... apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #Buy ... will save you money in the longterm. Break the rules to maximize

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... , just to gauge prices before actually buying things. Then we roamed the ... Joe’s. The walk from Burton-Conner to Trader Joe’s is 25 minutes, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , it is a significant investment of time to do the problem sets. Another ... watching it in my English class (the AP's over, so we have to do SOMETHING ... oil. Colin: "Play it again, Sam," is from the Marx Brothers' A Night in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  person would put in their mouth. The question is: are you feeling lucky ... out of the most awesome material known to peoplekind!  Black Hole ... Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought ... things. Back in the day (circa 1890), this is how MIT Admissions worked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ’s charge to the graduates is one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve watched ... the matter is, when I was in high school, MIT sounded like the most fun ... ran out of classes to take in the areas I love most; for virtually every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... , according to Steph, the most frequently asked question, besides "Turkeys into ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... I had accomplished much during the week. I did feel burned out. MIT is ... the things you want to do outside of classes. In my case, I want to blog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  other dining hall to boot. "This is OUR Shuli? The one who doesn't even ... plan, going to the dining hall is starting to seem like an increasingly ... then have to clean it up, and even just buying all the ingredients can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  least four dozen people in our mob, ATS decided to scout out the biggest ... friends decided that the logical next step was to buy a lot of pastries. Off ... way out, I beheld a wonder of creative marketing. The sign is to be read

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for ... in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... subway station. Moral of the story: Life is different when you go to

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  of wonder in their transience, and I find life to be much the same ... and it is absolutely divine. I need to wake up in the morning one day ... . The chair tied this beach to romance, not love. This is an adventure in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  the spire again is downfall, a huge expansion mod that adds so much ... and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family ... . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... driver who whisked me to the start of the AT in Georgia) told me. And he

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  infinity, as expressed in mathematics and in poetry) and is one of the sweetest, most intellectually active people I know. In the days following ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... Year: Find Your Home When you're starting out in college, the most

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  research endeavoring to save lives. The AKAs & Deltas participate in Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of ... who will be attending the whirlwind extravaganza that is CPW in April

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009