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  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... living in the city, you'd have a bike stolen at least once -- if you were ... -much-publicized Charles Guan sends out the following e-mail: 3 bikes in mostly good repair

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... little things. Cooking dinner for you. Buying you more toothpaste when you ... !! When you're in college, you'll really come to appreciate the things they

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old person here. In fact, I am 35 years old, almost two times the age when I ... In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... /wk. dining plan) thought it was crazy that I was considering living in a dorm

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

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="the U belongs in labour!!"]spelling that feels slightly off ... boiled alive in 90 deg C) writing the date the ‘wrong way’ (so apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  weekly. Classes (not including in class time) [annotation note ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This ... two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... designing the camera in between study sessions using Google SketchUp, and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... security card) into my closet, which stayed in a state of constant chaos ... ."]opening[/annotation] of the closet door instantly spiked my blood pressure levels. So in an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later, because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very ... journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ordered from McMaster-Carr, Adafruit, etc. Buy a physical textbook ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... sophomores that prepares us for success in the workplace.  Throughout the year, we have obtained guidance, support, and training in our internship

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014