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• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent ... good. I spent all of 2020 cooking for myself, starting from when I was living at home during quarantine to when I went to live alone abroad for my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful ... present have done for us! Also *virtual hugs* for being our audience! It ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  of shot an application at PlayStation for the heck of it; also, my ... write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your application - or perhaps you're in the middle of writing yours for this season

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... Classical Mechanics Study for the biology and chemistry ASE’s Go out into ... sell all my extra clothing Things I actually had time for during IAP

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics final."]PNR,[/annotation] so why not? The essay was for 21H.130, History

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So ... start making time, even if it’s literally just ten minutes, for me. Life

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... than I asked for. However, looking back, I could not be happier that I ... various techniques we used. By the end, when I was reviewing for the final

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  for the GEL Program, "almost every team practiced key leadership skills ... time, materials, and requirement specifications, and did not go for the ... boundaries sometimes, and so we forget what the customer asked for in the first

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... came back to campus for track practice with no other plans except to read

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... dining hall fit for Hogwarts. It was nothing like that. That was Thursday

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now ... for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  place, it's perfect for me, but I definitely understand how people can be miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person ... looked at my decision, in order to prepare me for the statistically

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly ... not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  waiting for my early action decision from MIT… *cue psychedelic time ... . Not a chance. Nope. For example, there was one guy who set-up a webcam ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... need others to help them. Having to fend for myself for the last two ... home for MIT’s Family Weekend, I rushed into her arms and squealed. Don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  the AP exam, to 1) prepare us for the exams even more, and 2) allow us ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006