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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  cozy apartment, some of what's truly important. And I'm very grateful for ... , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  flag ran into the middle of the field and there was an uproar from the ... Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness ... crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  long as you're not turning pinches of salt into handfuls of salt, then it ... is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a wide variety of things, rice and not rice, which make it a worthy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  therapy? and it's not like you don't put a lot of effort into your current ... outside & a black flock of birds erupts into something that’s never ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and ... . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... the disastrous combination of boring and detail-oriented—but every year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others ... spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  and free, to not reel it back into the realm of the easy and manageable ... care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the fetus version of a full-fledged Tamagotchi—it was capable of walking

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... machine out of its box today and get it humming before the class of 2006 ... sensible, even if they weren't works of art. A lot of people wore cool stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  into twelve teams of a hundred-ish students each, and the top team at the end of the week gets a secret prize........red on top. . Going into the ... comes into my room. My floor is strewn with cardboard, canvases, markers

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  its way into a corner of the hall, was swiftly consumed in full by an ... , it's important to take care of your pets if you're going to have one ... I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  /BEN JONES/EVERYBODY I SAW TODAY: ... NO JOKE! Last night I changed into 5.112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18.02 (calculus) recitation I wanted I had to switch into 8.01 (physics) at 9 AM. So

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a ... . Many different students fit into different types of classes and will ... 't come into play. No more than 8% of MIT's student body can be

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  magic formula to engineer most of life’s important outcomes.  Sure, you ... ) is one of the most financially important choices you’ll ever make ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  eight CMS classes in the hope that I’ll get into at least two of them. I ... past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  It is 5:16am. At about 4:45, I walked into Senior House. I had been ... walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... Infinite every weekday, slip into a touchdown space to listen to a zoom ... trend of a given math class introducing a concept, like parametric

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018