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• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night ... family maple sugar business, and another very beautiful lake. Then I slept

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription in your native language. Find a [annotation note="primary care provider ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... good website that I found today MIT-area shopping guide by Spouses and ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... wrong. This list has many more events than the list in your puny booklet ... /26/2012 00:47-2:17 Adventures in Neverland Never grow up! Peter Pan fights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily: Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have ... alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  , Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... ; MIT does not accept insomniacs. The park put in two new rides this year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... 've missed above all, however, is Chick Fil A. There are no Chick Fil A's in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... break for about half an hour and there's no refrigerator or microwave in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... their parents in the Infinite Corridor - the former are bouncy and the ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  these things in a ceramic, mushroom-shaped container (which we affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it ... ! And our really awesome friend was in it, performing with a sword that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... )']wild mushrooms[/annotation] Climbed an [annotation note='these first three

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements.
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  there, the shiitake mushroom of the matter). Here are some of the things ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... ! The amount of passion in your applications. WOW! It does the soul good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with ... ): obtain mushrooms of various types. shiitake is pretty good. obtain ... fine pieces mix it in a big pot beat two or three eggs and add that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025