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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  . Have some fun! You already deserve it for making it so far in high school ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  these definitions: S: best class ever A: would take again and again ... 'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  recordings of ourselves that we submit online for the professor to review ... muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... changed every round. All I needed to do was report our team’s answers for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible ... the local 7-11, well, the local one that wasn't shut down last month for ... play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 ... groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  had mangoes on sale for 50 cents each (67 percent off), so I bought 8 ... 've been trying to give up certain things and routines I take for granted so I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  there enough room, pans, pots, knives, ovens, stove elements, etc. for ... you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make...something. The hacking arena. The ingredients: ideas, sleeplessness, Red Bull, and ... hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President and lost. This was probably one of the best learning experiences of my ... have received a C+. I had a lot of fun. One of the things that I feared

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  an engineer or veterinarian in London in my apartment for 1 and some incredulous number of dogs. That was before I met my second boyfriend and then ... except for myself. I imagined a life of biomedical devices, then a life of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

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

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up ... someone cook lunch and dinner for me. No one knew that I was here. Backpack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  my family and playing with my dog, I have been taking pictures of rural train stations for the past three weeks. It's long, hard work, hence my ... nonblogging is apparently reason for you to yell at me. Please don't. Every post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Line, which hits the Red Line at South Station. These pictures ... almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... ourselves, we played Would You Rather while cleaning. This game is really

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... are funded. This funding pays for tuition, health insurance, and a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  conferences for young entrepreneurs? Literally the night before Next Gen ... a conference for millennial entrepreneurs. It starts tomorrow and it ... couldn't sleep for more than an hour at a time. But it was all worth it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  the months leading up to decision day. I could play with absolutely no ... fascination with bright colors and cool lighting. I played around with brushes ... of red and tints of blue. [carousel image1="106189" image2

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024