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• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  weekday for crew practice, and I've been getting to bed by 9:30 or 10 every ... early for most MIT students, but trust me, it's worth it. Eat 3 ... week. I usually buy breakfast (including coffee) and lunch

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  UROPing for Draper than his mom makes at her actual job. I totally have a ... suppose it's usually more expedient to leave a comment on my blog -- I can ... for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  , then go to take a shower. 5:00 PM As I wait for Amber to get from the ... gross. First, I need to catch a bus, which stops across the street from my apartment. Sometimes, I get lucky and I only wait for a couple minutes; other

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to ... would be better next year. this spring i was seated at a dinner where

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for ... else can you "buy" people's cooperation for only a quarter?’” Schindall ... was crazy! How can we top that?”) than a chore. I particularly enjoyed

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic ... afternoon tea. There will be a big old knees up as from here on out the ... route divides into three affording a huge number of options for teams to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  residential dining: 1. Buying groceries and cooking for yourself or in a group ... /lunch supplies for a set price per semester). Convenient details can be found here ... -soda-and-vinegar vocanoes, I should have been grossly underprepared for a class that covered

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  be in a position where I can help those who have less. I am empowered ... given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries ... $50 for Uber, for a grand total of $638 off. I learned that stuff adds

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  least I look hot.” Blahaj plays a similar role where “at least I look hot” becomes “at least I can get a hug from a silly shark.”  While everyone can ... significance for a particular community to the point where Blahaj is without a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for ... . I'm a complete sucker for historical stuff like that, which is why I ... reason I joined twitter. I was resistant and fairly hostile for a while

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  one for a little kid.  I miss riding the school bus. I miss playing ... , because I couldn’t find a better place for it. I miss my 2 windows that let ... borrowed from a friend and to this day have yet to return. I miss yelling to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get ... your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for ... one. I could write a lot about what this meant for me, and maybe I will ... drawing again I used to do a lot of art as a kid, but for the past four

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  to GRADUATE from a college. I know that this is hard for you, but you ... most important for me. I guess I can do that. Q: One thing that you ... the best Danielle that you can be. A “good match” is a place where you

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  from Chinese recipes that my mother sends me when I ask her for help ... of food from the Tupperware I’ve been using as a bowl, I feel an ... , and nothing is going right. There was a week where I ate only one meal a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... morning, I and half of MIT (I kid, I kid) awoke to find an email from Jess

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out ... . So here's a list of restaurants/bars that I patronized this month

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  . I did some actual psetting for a while, then checked the time. 7:30 pm ... school (hooray for being a clueless little freshman released from the ... ’d love to, I can’t put my mental state through a rigorous scientific

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  emails from Harvard because I signed up for a library card, which I guess ... storage, where it would be kept, and for how long. I didn't really trust ... with my friends right now? Can I handle going home? A million new

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020