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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  stuff. Week of June 13-June 19 On Wednesday I got my copy of Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don’t mean “oh snap it is going to take me…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  . There’s a book launch on June 19th, but more details about that later. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I’m the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1) prior to Monday, I was under the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  the bowels of Chinatown, Ben and I took our luggage and walked about 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  ways to think about chance as a function. (12 units) 21W.774 [The Art of ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744 ... succeeding in converting people to 21W at a SHASS event :( -The time I saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  semester or so, and I'm really enjoying doing problems like that again. 21M ... hours a week, but, as expected, I am still thoroughly enjoying it. 21M ... concert this semester was beautiful. 21M.780, Writing the Full-Length Play

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every ... , similar to 21E"]21S,[/annotation] [annotation note="physics!"]8,[/annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  eggs, plantain, salad, rice, beans, and an arepa (all for $14). "Corn ... me ~$14). I went here on Jebby '25's suggestion. My order: Peach

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  ’s not like that moment came out of nowhere — i’ve been course 14 since

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  K. '18 "A Letter to CPW Pre Frosh" by Anna H. '14 "Events, Food ... 's Guide to CPW" by Lydia K. '14  And truly Ancient: "What to Expect When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... 14) game (i will write about this later when it actually begins), the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  and Cory R. ’14 remarked that it was a shame the bed couldn’t make

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ; my friend Eric '14 and I tried to think of seven questions that every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  the Nickelodeon cartoon thing going. Maita '13 and Elizabeth '14/Korra ... Luke '14. But the best cosume(s) of the evening? They might kill me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . '14, the MIT student. - Today, summer disappeared and I had my first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012