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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  tiny room with 1-3 “strangers,” and stopping through Killian Court just ... take five college-level courses, receive college admissions and financial aid advice, and receive mentorship from current undergraduate students

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... school and up until about this last August, I ran. The reasons why I ran changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try ... We love Maangchi's YouTube channel! She is really cute and funny, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  this post submitted their early application yesterday, and are already ... take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... are suddenly very difficult and nothing at all like that easy shit in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... , are terrific. And walking suffices. I say suffices because if you're like me and live at Next House, you're really shooting yourself in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention all the other fruits and veggies available right now. Better still, talk a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of ... ish. I've finished problems 1 and 2. :/ Exhibit A: Is this really 7 ... by Walter Lewin on neutron stars, and now much more of it will be spent

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  important reasons. 1. MIT classes are harder than high school classes, and ... fun and explore life outside the classroom without being overly ... and find an appropriate balance between work and play without damaging

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... planned with our winter coats. We would knock on her door and she would pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it ... ; and pulling, with trembling fingers, timid, slippery walls up to the sky

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab ... ="105488" image3="105489" /]   2.003- Dynamics and Control I  This class has

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... and pressing paper down for three key reasons: 1.) I liked the Course 18 ... different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done ... scale seems arbitrary and intellectually lazy, with far too much potential ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration ... , move fast, and break things (though not literally because musical instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars ... , Arizona, my room with blue walls and faded art from past comic-cons. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... had dramatic results, on families, communities, finances, and more. I ... students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022