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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  join the dining service for a fee and then receive a 50% dicount on food ... were both here for CPW, and I hope that you experienced these aspects of ... spent a lot of time swapping tips with other teams). And as I said enough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... it into yeast along with a DNA that encodes for some random snippet of ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... /theory/proof based. I studied for the 18.02 ASE and thought I had a good shot at ... . Sometimes I put my bike down and just sit there for a while, thinking about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ; definitely lots more legroom than on a plane, and, for the moment, there ... leadership election for a little longer, and then start reading something ... looked the same; a thin strip of trees between us and a row of houses

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  application season is a stressful and busy time for applicants and that sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time and place for your ... that part of what ECs look for are NICE people, and this includes people

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name ... hosting and protecting anonymous comments, and having the option for a fully

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a ... modern Chinese. I’m scared for my life (and my grade) but also looking ... Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  heart, and it made a lot more sense for me to fly in when I was a freshman last year.  I came with a backpack and two suitcases: one checked, one ... with: Clothes (Boston will be hot for a month-ish once you get here

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she ... stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  . Put it in a pan with olive oil and cook on high for a few minutes while ... had a massive potluck Thanksgiving dinner with our housemaster Nina and ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and ... . Tomorrow, I'm going to see a movie with my fellow summer interns. And on ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  for years to come, and can be a great conversation starter when talking ... meant to be a parody of the Liv and Maddie Intro with references to some ... sequences, which are basically short online assignments with a video and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 would make for a good mashup!" Or say ... that look like a murky smoothie of pixels: With a college card, you ... to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact ... Thai food, watched a stupid, mindless movie: and slept for 12 hours ... least pass everything, and as we learned a few weeks ago, D is for Diploma

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent adventures, I ... to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s fault

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  , with a kitchen all to myself and lots of free time and mental space to ... photos look the same.... Exhibit 1: the basics. When I want a big and ... , and adding some vegetables and greens for a bowl-like situation. Here

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  done with caution during the winter when leaving windows open for a long ... tester cards. I spray a few cards with a nice perfume and put them into a ... ="MacGregor House has 312 singles (and 3 doubles assigned by request only). In other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... sphere as a place filled primarily with advanced scientific endeavors–and ... : The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons book talk mar 10

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  organization behind it. Freshman year, I got to take a better look at it and ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... stations, which comes complete with a Mac, PC, telephone, and snazzy headset ... it to the queue, so that other consultants can take a look at it and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008