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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of ... goal, by the end of four years, is to be able to pull together a tasty ... ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  put together because the colors all move from area to area easily ... warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap ... As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have several small UAVs work together to perform a task rather than ... was on the software required to get the aircraft working together, and ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  certain camaraderie to finishing a pset together at 3 am and walking down ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease never will I force myself to  live that way again. Or so I said.  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing ... relevant to my life, but mostly I decided that the self-help shelves didn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  the game! You don't have to be a prodigy or virtuoso or certified ... . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from crazy college party to mild adult dinner party"]adult things ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... from Games Magazine. This year's Mystery Hunt begins this Friday, January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT ... Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... pictures to show you just yet[/caption] During the spring, I was able to get ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... interesting to look at. I tried to pick things that are all relatively short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... ."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a ... was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be ... success. Thankfully the MIT Housing system is designed to give everyone the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... .) After the giant food extravaganza (and after a somewhat violent game of monster badminton), we headed down to the Plymouth waterfront for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  I have to cheer at a basketball game again tonight. Go Tech and ... fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real-life appear to be well, not that different. The last question of an Orgo exam

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019