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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  from the day: I just had to take a picture of this sign. Haymarket ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  they negotiated a cab for me while I (the foreigner, a tempting target on ... quite easy at times… Back to Yunnan for Puzhehei (普者黑), where I ... I was given funding for my airfare and tuition--if you ask, you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  -win-win to me. Shameless plug: You can read a story from my time here ... but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  -based project classes, and learned a lot.  I've worked closely with students from many different courses, and a handful from Harvard too.  This year, I ... mechanical engineering class. So while I can't really provide a success

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  chat with me. "Where are you from?" "California." "Ah, I'm from ... once again. I would neglect my own mental wellbeing for the sake of a ... Women This is a pretty big one for me actually. I grew up really hating

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  to a range where I can sing tenor parts again. We've also got to choose from a list of 12 diverse pieces for our project on improvisation. I ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  financial aid, I receive over $5000 a semester for living expenses, on top of ... happens, but also a pool of savings for me to use once I leave college. This ... MIT "set aside" a certain amount of money for me to eat. Now that I'm in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... the book for my sister at a discount, and personalized signatures from ... included below. BBF is another event where I got a signed book (the first of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  from a tour bus, locked myself in a bus bathroom for 10 minutes…The list ... one very hard. Once upon a time, I went to a hackathon in Russia and met ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  from watching. For example, do you know how to make a roux? Or properly ... at a constant rate C for tourists. Also, keep in mind, Sabrina can walk ... as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  feels. Today, it's my school-away-from-school. I can walk down Mass Ave or ... libraries lack. I've been to Harvard dorms where the whole thing feels like a ... [/caption] This past spring, Paige cross-registered at MIT for 6.036, a class I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  and turned back… Our conversation carried on for a few minutes. I ... really, can you guess where the edible part is??? I couldn't be sure. Here ... for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  . I got a taste of them, and that’s enough for now. I’ll taste it again ... for a long time. I'll be taking classes here next year; I'll feel the ... A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... question! I can't speak for everywhere, but I've never known lack of kitchen ... heard from their schools about what to bring for the initiation, but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  ."]problems can arise from that:[/annotation] for single serving meals, half a lemon ... one of these for a long time. I’m sure you can imagine how hard pouring ... cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  where it comes from. it is a confidence that i could really use right now ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a smattering of low-impact projects and a lot of friends. i trust my ability to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue ... 't suffice. You have a choice here: you can either go for a nice wool coat

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  -minute trek from West Campus to Walker Memorial, where a lot of dance ... 't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... the HASS requirements because there is a 93% chance that I will say ... like a psycholinguistics aptitude exam. This semester, Paul B. and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010