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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm ... shifts. I have no problem waking up that early; it’s just… well… that’s

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... is no longer perfect. I am not really doing badly in classes--I am just ... the semester, it occurred to me that I owe a lot to ancient Greece, to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  people in the lounge that I may be a complete lost cause on the internet ... captain planet symbol. Why is she wearing . . . ooooooohhhh! She's in AXO, I ... am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  too much. I finally felt like I was a real college student and that I was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  've learned that I'm okay at biology, but yes, it does suck to be a premed at ... so that the chicken legs are 3/4 submerged in the water. 7. Place ... the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  cupboard above my sink (I have a sink!) is broken and I don’t know how to fix ... like growing up in the old house, as we called it, but that’s a different ... ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  g e m i n i j u i c e a saga of screenshots

  

  juice. i didn’t know that was a thing you could do?? but ok whatever the ... . never in my life have i seen fruits + cilantro. also celery is just a ... close and as a true asian i generally approve of putting ginger in things

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 5, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of ... . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... flexibility that I wanted (and needed), I enrolled in the 2-A program. This ... for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  in the past year and a half, I’ve come to realize that it’s truly the ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little ... always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  reveals a side of Mathematics that is gorgeous in itself. No application is ... infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... realities of college. I will contemplate the practice in the end, and a color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... anything Japanese. I usually don't like modern art, but this is just too

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that ... I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  One seemingly minor, yet important, change I've noticed between college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  in a week that I'm not really worried about getting a second ... , Japanese, and two programs in Chinese. I do know two people who have taken ... of it in a row. That means that you have to plan for a two-hour block

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... characters deal with a tragic reality that is seemingly inevitable. The ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  , they had a friend that was just accepted to MIT EA. I'm not sure how much ... I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  . That I always end up contemplating what went wrong in the past few ... is usually that the other water dispenser on my floor in the office is ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... room on that same floor. I saw 2 fellow pre-frosh for the 3rd time at a ... sure to check if there is a Summer Send-Off Event in your area HERE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015