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• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... systems, which was somewhat engaging, but, in true Severance fashion, I felt myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... from campus, etc. Each floor in Burton-Conner also has a different

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  may be entitled to financial compensation in the form of “me buying a ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  interview. He suggested that we meet up during his short stay in the area, and ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... (ART) in Cambridge. Teller of Penn & Teller (a famous magician duo

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I ... ’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy ... experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... at least one more year (unless they're old, in which case, why are you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... shrimp, and then crispy fries rolled in melted butter and dipped in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange ... Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  briefly contemplated buying a Hard Rock Café: Munich t-shirt, because that ... just the Germany-Sweden eighthfinal World Cup match taking place in Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  actually read back in middle school, and it motivated me to buy a collection ... I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... 's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66 ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post ... you zoomed-in pictures and let you guess.   Picture #1 Wrong ... Career Fair! Yes! My first Career Fair!. All of my favorite companies in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013