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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... 's a loaf of cinnamon bread in the frigo de boissons) - Il y a des ... kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... casual attire, the driver asked me what I was in town for. Being the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an ... A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... dove right in. I was back home in New York for a couple of weeks, it was ... grounded in that world. I’m a fan of flowery, (often needlessly) complex

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... a car nor family in the area. So the way I usually handle my summer ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  runner up had only ~5,000XP. I put in about two and a half hours and go to ... . Oblivious of what this would result in, I decided to work for the rest of the ... marker I had hoped to reach within a week before the end of day 3. Final

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... class last year before dropping it. It is pretty much the same as what I ... , but the class is supposedly a lot of work, and I'm more interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  -three. What matters is, do I feel like I’m in a weird valley? Not really. Or ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some ... wonder why I should subject myself to something @ 10 AM four days a week ... will go. • Random events - i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook…Oh My! What

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... as a whole, question what impact I wanted to leave on the world. In ... Horseman quite literally changed my life. I was in a really dark place when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... . But this is MIT - what were you expecting? ;) I'm actually looking forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  reflected on what I've done. Suddenly it feels like 2016 was a lifetime. Not everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT ... When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  semesters, I’m cooling my heels wondering if I should bake a batch of cookies ... know what, I should probably spend that time on my UROP anyways, and I ... the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau ... underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... what you’re doing today, what else would be doing? Before YouTube I was ... write. What are your passions in life? I mean, pretty much what you see

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  what I hear. Make sure to check out the big a capella concert over CPW if ... pay $14 plus an additional $1 a semester, last time I checked), desks in ... Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a ... don't think I've ever had a steak that good. Bern's has a menu that in ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005