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• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  to describe it using words, then fail, and end up buying me a cannoli ... weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to ... sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily ... science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  's hardest problems: In a mathematical competition, 6 problems were posed to ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... costume, then searched my room for a fridge, with grand plans to get Thai

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each ... importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the ... goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... life not longer feels linear. Suddenly, success seems to mean a lot of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... to do it.  While digging through my closet in search of a suitable ... nightmares in a cold sweat and I don’t even mention them to her the next day. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to ... package ready to go. Our waitlist process, like our entire admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... shoot (with a smaller camera), I spent a few hours struggling to fold the ... the bellows to the camera body, readying it for its first (and hopefully

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... to eat. Into Asian cuisine? There's a pan-Asian restaurant, Island ... court (with everything from sushi to Sbarros), a nearby Legal Sea Foods

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  ’t sleep until 3am because I hit a critical mass of a desire to write. So ... felt like I needed to live more life and read more before I had a right ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  three ovens, as well as a fridge for each class year. Don't rush to buy ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with ... of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... completed his thesis earned and a doctorate in Chemistry. If you're coming to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  related to him? (I think this is a hard question. Maybe I am wrong.) Adam ... I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of ... entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  . Rejoiced in the decided spring. Next, ready to blast off into our dreams ... talked to a recent graduate, and we welcomed the 3 Central Ohio pre ... always MIT friends. A gigantic THANK YOU to all who make these Central

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