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• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... dimples in the Charles let me know that it was still raining. I ate a ... I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a-CPWtime events and have once-in-a-CPWtime experiences! If you like your host, maybe

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  .”– but I think that is what makes the story interesting. In life there are ... , it’s the one with 26-100, which in hindsight, I should’ve remembered ... the end of the semester, I found myself doing more in a way that didn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  I've heard people talk about, what with being a Mathematics and ... time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... disease, or diabetes, or cancer. In general, a shorter lifespan. But I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  bit nervous going in, I thought the film did quite a good job; I enjoyed ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in ... special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  (relatively) hands down.      I wrote a check for the first time and failed miserably. I felt like such an adult and made a show of writing the check until I ... , I guess.  Social Experiences  I realize I go to Oath a lot. In the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  't a bad thing, it's a sign you have good taste. every once in a while i ... . why? what's the point? i've spent a lot of time recently thinking about ... " write a blog post. why? i'm sure at some point in my life i must've had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  've waited 30 minutes for a quesadilla that they ended up putting chicken in (I ... eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... different diets? Distance (vaguely) - From what I'm deeming an arbitrary

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  multiple years before i was born."]2000[/annotation] or a little later, so ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... , although it should be noted that I should never be allowed to guess what

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... number before the decimal point should be read as one word, i.e. 18 is ... As I told you in my last entry, my mother has become concerned about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... pretty much had free reign in what we got to do before the main event for ... all over campus while getting a more in-depth sense of what life at MIT

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... they might be in a few days, or weeks, or months. I can delay apartment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  ’s not that I haven’t used cosmetics before (in fact, I wear make ... Water Project is that, sadly, as many wells as I could possibly build in a ... funny I saw in the Harvard Yenching Library (I'm taking a Chinese class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... call a "CHILL" day :) I settled down in Hamsika's dorm (where I met her ... 'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a ... see what's it's like, I'm trying to be a vegetarian for ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  sledding hill in a 10 mile radius, thank Vartan) before realizing that ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  any one thing you should put on before stepping out, it’s a properly ... . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I ... warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... Harrisburg and a white rose dropping in York), we played two party games that I ... in a "Y". Oh, maybe. But the other people don't know that. See what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011