Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me ... feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost losing things I didn’t realize were important, do I now have things I won

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , Friday afternoon: I walked into one of my interviews today. The professor ... school interviewing in biology gives some insight into the admissions ... , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  " out into the middle of the road. After a brief double-take, Shana and I ... architects who designed Ursinus were apparently into the same sorts of bizarre ... into a symbol of everlasting freedom--I'll have to try that trick around

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  took, and also my first introduction into how to do any of this (yikes ... procedures I'll need, but I'm hoping that once I get into the thick of it and ... fire and a vengeance! And a whopping three (3) weeks into the semester

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  correct."][/annotation] Afterwards, I walked out of the room and into a ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  that said, let us dive into the awesome world of food and cooking ... butter into a thin coat of simmering water Season beurre monté to taste ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  ?  All of this plays into my friendship experience at MIT as follows~ I ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  of stressless creativity into a greyish schedule. Who can resist ... . Probably half of last night's dinner budget was converted into pureed cashews ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  reminds me of you. this time it was headfirst slide into cooperstown on a ... had gotten into mit, that i was going to make something out of myself ... , [annotation note="hello cami here. this is? a different kind of blog. ranty blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  compensate for a recent lack of entries by cramming them all into one! By the ... can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian ... year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... of someone’s grandparent being shoved, beaten, or slashed goes viral

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r ... How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  think many of the attitudes of the computing culture has spilled over into ... MIT, which provided the cradle of the Internet, that spilled over into ... someone into a fraternity means more than simply completing a rite of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... awkward writing. When these kinds of people pool together, though, it's like

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays about throwing myself into a waterfall, but decided MIT didn't need to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006