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• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  and chicken with rice. Defrosting meat is a thing that you have to do ... a recipe? No. Did I have any idea what I was doing? No. How much ... ingredients that can go in a lot of different things is that you can mix and

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

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... even more so than this year. One weakness in my teaching is that I have a ... schedule kicked in. I had decided at one point that it was a brilliant idea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh ... linguistics, I recently started a UROP that has to do with the rhythm of speech

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  of multicolored lights, in dorms that let you do that, is beautiful. I ... two separate beds, but I don't know what the norm is, or if there is a norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at ... sulked about it in my mind quite often, which I do not usually do, because I like to pretend that they are not broken. I wanted to write a blog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  hello this is a blog. right now. rrahhhhhhhhhh i wrote this blog ... classes that I am taking, in order from least - to - most edible:  🪀2 ... how their spelled, kind of like a half finished hangman game. Problem is

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  the most fun I've had in literal weeks. I'm so grateful that I've had ... 've always been "the young one" in most environments I've been; I took a lot of ... several years, so I'm happy that I was able to, uh, share a bit of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... ? sunday? cuddling afterwards? why do i talk? Well, if you want us all that ... Children of Eden rehearsal, which is a miracle because I am notoriously bad

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre ... debt, because they were like "Oh man, look how cool that new HDTV is! I ... -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... -D lottery. The upshot of this is that you can make more informed choices in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  only -- although my unofficial transcript says that I got an A+ in 7 ... 't really know how I manage my time, other than that I keep lots of to-do ... and got a C in 8.02x (physics E&M). Apathy is bad.) Of course, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class ... entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... now hand twins. That is the only episode of "Friends" that I have ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  morning as I was riding the T to that other school I take a class at, I remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I ... heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that ... variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... to find things that I actually enjoyed doing.   But where was it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  better minute by minute.’” i don’t believe in chi, but i do believe that ... that’s how i stumbled upon my current views - that people do care about ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  classmate, "pissed off." When I do talk, it's in a monotone that's deeper than ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... I could be a normal person. Some people do actually have this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , and I think a lot of it is from the skills that I gained in my first ... know what the Damkohler number is. Punchline: I learned a lot in my classes. While that in itself is a tremendous feat, there is much more that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... most you can do is two majors and two minors. How easy/difficult a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006