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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  sophomores do when we get stuck on chemistry pset problems, and help in the ... compound reactions or how to build rockets - and we want everyone else to be ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the ... which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals ... , introductory paper to the major collosal paper due in December, just like four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... I want to eat at that exact moment. And I love it. In preparation for ... Oats These seem to be getting really popular lately? I feel like you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... in my room escalated back to numbers that looked like my test scores in ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  ;)[/caption] We're still in Q-week, which means we're supposed to stay inside ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  , and even attempted to get in on magnificent Black Friday deals, but ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... into wedges. There’s a body of mathematical work about how to fairly cut ... didn’t end up being that nerdy, and it was cut in nice, sensible, easy-to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in fact, all that hard; it's a lot harder to get into law school or medical school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my ... them. This was when I was still beginning to get more involved in floor ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Florey know how to celebrate in style. *grin* ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... arms when he gets to campus! Interview with Hank We had some questions ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... in bed, wanting to take a nap even if i feel well-rested. i've started ... senioritis in non-schoolwork things too. i don't feel like going to many of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  getting access to Caroline fell through. In the wise words of one of our ... are just like the rest of us, in a hurry to get from one place to ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in ... time in which to draw on unexpired inspiration). There are incredible ... and Planning major in me got real excited. The exhibit considers "how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... that rotting in bed alone is a privilege, not a right. So to distract ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small ... that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006