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• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  the same code all day? All questions that concerned me and the next 40 ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the interesting problems I tackled and the imposter-syndrome-inducing people I met

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... ; that's around $12 per dinner and $6.60 per breakfast.  It's also use ... 't cover. You can do better than that.  Cook for yourself, eat tastier (and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  Meet my roommate and me: [carousel image1="105826" image2 ... sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... Equipment: 2 carts borrowed from dorms and an indominable spirit Timeline

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... as wiser than sophomores and freshman when i barely know my way around ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  blog post to announce that and explain why.  As you may know, the wait ... students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod ... sickeningly bright green drink—a matcha frappuccino—and prayed to the stars that we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... little workout. Stress-exercising is a coping mechanism for me and one ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people ... through student organizations and extracurriculars. We see TAs that save our

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  and see their values and priorities manifest into their inventions. So ... , like finishing up my IAP class assignments and moving rooms in my ... and sent me a reminder when I opened my browser.   I looked at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during ... learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the Infinite alongside falling juggling balls, skateboards and scooters that ... love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... graduates Benjamin Harvatine '12 and Seth Berg '14 who recently built a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  Lab, is small, demanding and moves incredibly quickly. Each semester the class works with a different client to learn and apply ideas about ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... ! tell me about your research.") and asked Neil deGrasse Tyson a question. On January 10, I packed all my fancy conference clothes and my laptop

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  Logarhythms, the Muses, and the Shakespeare Ensemble - can be hired to burst into a lecture hall or classroom and serenade a lucky individual. Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013