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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  everything?[/annotation] In such great amounts? And thus begins my crusade for ... store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  going on, which is great. This semester I went to Mexico with some besties ... evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... how to spend my days in social isolation [annotation note="something i ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  figured out how to successfully achieve multiple "food systems" goals ... can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve ... different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... have help, you still have to put in the work.  If you get to the place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  relativity to tell how modern the ideas in the course description are, but 8 ... to the great advantage of all freshmen who do not live in fraternities ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023