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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... . But first I want to tell you about the most exciting part of the trip--getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... hall: "I live in Baker now and I have to pay for preferred dining, so I ... staples and snacks. Having LaVerde's central in our campus is great because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall ... and journal and plan read a little bit, daydream a little get to work ... never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... doing a virtual dog simulator. Excited to see how these startups do. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... an honor to have been a part of the initial crew, and what a great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... checking my messages. (for geographic reference, refer to how to find your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbdUPKD8ek"]revelation;[/annotation]I came in stressed out to all hell about ... far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... right for you. In particular, don't feel pressured to go to tons of events

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or ... sentences? A: I don’t know. I’ll probably just take great care to avoid that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I mostly live off my credit card.) It's always good how to learn to cook new things. So I went with My Suitemate Linda, and we learned how to make

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  (ooooooooooh) HOW TO DO PARKOUR Music History Different dog breeds in New ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... great place to figure out what (within math) one is interested in. I also ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it ... below the Great Dome. Prof. Wallace presenting the trophy to the victors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  feel like a constant sleepover and you really get to yap and have fun ... whipped up in 20 minutes and got inspired so now i’ve decided to take this ... that it doesn't really get better from here"]SO NOW YOU GUYS GET TO HEAR

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to ... Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... an action is good or bad? How to get rid of stains? What am I gonna ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020