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• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  work even a part-time summer job and then find a way to work a couple ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

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

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  dedicate my life to something so important when i’m in a place where i can ... : there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up to ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an ... seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  , the dorms organize a trip to Honeypot orchards, where MIT students are ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  an employer wanted to send a recommendation letter, where would she ... you have a question though that doesn't seem to already have been answered, though, I am more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... followed, or catcalled. At one point, a man tried to hit me as he called me a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... pattern chapter concludes with a paragraph outlining its links to the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code ... . Awesome.] As a freshmen, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  section, where mine is 11am to 12pm every Wednesday. Every Friday, a new lab ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... note="Circuits and Electronics"]6.002[/annotation] as a follow up to 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  Chinatown to China Pearl where I had a little bit of this and a little bit of ... to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... we run to Jamaica Pond, which, as the route is also a team favorite, is ... and I had just woken up to go for a run, so at the time I pegged it as a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  typography jargon! A letter's terminal is where its stroke ends ... ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest ... , as opposed to a variable-width font."]monospaced[/annotation] font is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... earlier, however, there was a four year stretch where we didn't take anyone ... ? Next week, a mailing will be sent out with a reply card to all waitlisted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  .  And, honestly, nobody really cares. How long would it take you to find a ... to find an object of which there has not been a new one in half a ... sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  here is. i originally intended for this to just be a fun post where i ... "]compulsory meal plan friends,[/annotation] you’ll have to wait. I ate a LOT of ... time i got to the buffalo chicken too, so there wasn’t a big point

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020