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• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of their first events to increase awareness about HBV and recruit new ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like

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

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  challenge here is deciding what to do with it. I learned during my first year ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but ... gave me my first chance to foray into the land of MIT Admissions Blogging

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  continued on to publish a semesterly food magazine. See our first, sparkly ... of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  deadline. It's also easy to forget that the first attempt may be the hardest ... college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  went to public school." Part of the purpose of first term pass/no record ... house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  driving by all the time. The first week when I moved to the Little Town I ... some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  -expand into what I wanted to do in the first place, so I'm very happy about this ... in -- and then I came to MIT and spent a solid month of my first UROP ... genuinely want the best for me and tell me to put myself first.  

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the beautiful trees. This is the first year I've been able to see the ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , though, or why they may or may not invert. To discuss colors, we first have ... amount of light that gets through it First, we need to describe what a ... the light that enters the first filter manages to leave the second

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  ="64761" /] In Framingham, near the commuter rail station, I take my first break to ... me "how did you get into walking?" The first answer that comes to my ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in ... 's difficult to say "hey! you should start a FIRST Robotics team!" when you also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  continues to be the first place I take guests from out of town. The only ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... food I love. Now this post isn't to say that these are undoubtedly the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... my first taste of the working life. (P.S. One of my favorite moments

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010