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• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  phone call at around 1 AM (which is only 10 PM in Northern California ... before) and gave Megan a call at around 5:15 AM. Much of what Megan says ... % off coupon in the Collegiate Coupon Book, which you can pick up for free

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  probably a lot more stuff that Brain is repressing In summary, this time of ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  categories are: • Homegrown Proposal The project is conducted in a home ... -Based Proposal The project is conducted in a professional setting, such as a school ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  manifest them in the physical world because putting yourself out there is scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed ... got in. Fast forward to now, and putting yourself out there is still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  performances. In your freshman year, trying new things is a lot less awkward ... knowledge and ignorance. My theory is that, at MIT, especially in the first ... at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  lights up every time a pizza box is left in a conference room"]free ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... last semester! Feels good to be identified not just as a child (as is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my ... inundated with exciting possibilities. Much like CPW, you will be

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the ... nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... prodigies when you don’t know how much they, too, have failed in the past, or even how much they fail at MIT and just don’t talk about it. In debate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  direction, but very low confidence in it. CLUBS AT MIT HOLY SHIT This is a ... , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... as 60 units a semester, but still haven't really had much time. So when

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Verizon as I suggest, so in-calling is free. 8. Classes. No, really. I ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  speech in (a free trial of) Final Cut Pro, which was the only video editing ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... consistent enthusiasm is difficult) into a fancy microphone, and painstakingly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a ... , a boy in an MIT sweatshirt nervously fiddled with his water bottle

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  so much to say, but even writing in a journal seems difficult. all ... a loss of them and because i have so much to say. in a more detail ... said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , he has a lot of flexibility in his hours since all he needs is his ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006