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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... -Orientation Programs–totally not required to apply, but they're super fun!"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... 'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  answers to your recent questions ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... 's journey from no running to Boston Marathon convinced me that I could train ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... dates. We'll take the top bidders out to see movies or to Toscanini ... to my 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) professor Kimberly Berkowski, 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... 4.113 - Applied Architecture Design Studio I, we have to code

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush-infested Valentine's day crusade to deliver something like 2,000 love-infested "band

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... . Whenever I go to do work, the lights are low, and everything is all dark and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007