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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner ... the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient ... ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... Blue Brain Project, a joint venture between EPFL and IBM to ... Switzerland to show you. Don't expect anything too soon, though - I'll need a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear ... . decisions...I am not able to believe that a nobel prize man like prof ... , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... the hallways, wonderful communities to join, and a whole city to explore ... ’d love to, I can’t put my mental state through a rigorous scientific

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with ... . And, I mean… there was a lot more to it than that. I was going to live

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... only the slightest amount — maybe even a bit that wasn’t important to the class as a whole — will stick with you. To show this idea in action, I

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... reported back to Raphael, and we continued on our way, keeping a wary eye out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really ... off an A - nor will you be able to do every single problem on a given

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a ... are coming out in a couple hours. Yuliya K. '18 made a lovely post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... to. Of course, not all students come back to MIT for IAP. A few of my ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a student, I did not want to be a doctor when I grew up.) As a result, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  , they are a changing. The air is crisp, the trees are ebbing into their ... give you Snively's 21st Birthday as seen on Conner 2! Watch and see how a birthday is meant to be celebrated! There's everything you could want: jokes

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... , make coffee, drag myself over to my desk, code for a couple of hours ... with friends or just to sit in a park and breathe some fresh air

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022