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• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... , you can speed down Memorial Drive to Walker in maybe three minutes, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT ... handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... compilations, especially in the wee hours of the night. i hope in some other life ... happier. While I'm not psetting in front of the Stud or lounging on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  philosophers. I recognized a few of their names. In one chamber, Marie and Pierre ... coalesce into a story. It’s too simple a story, I know—of a city that lives ... honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... I was in for--originally thinking the project would take the rest of ... looking for help (as both of them can confirm), but by now I have enough

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won ... , I can’t tell you how huge a fan I am of your work. I actually quoted ... conflicts. I asked Facebook if anyone else was attending, assembled a posse of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... night sky away from the city. You can say that’s cheesy, and that I didn ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... Interphase EDGE, a decent amount of people did not think I was a student in the program, and I was used as a fictional character in one of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  effectiveness of your teammates. I’ve found it’s a lot easier to put in my best ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be ... for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  quiet, I can barely hear it... Oh, I know! It's my entire family dying of ... /that/ spice, and I have no clue where to find the cans of whatever, all ... -fast,[annotation note="I'm not a vegan, but it seems like becoming more of one can only be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  a handful of the events created with you in mind for CPW and I hope ... do how can you really get the most out of the experience? I hope you ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  were harmed in the end. I acquired ~99% of college wisdom from fellow ... Principle of Conservation of Difficulty. As mentioned earlier, I fell in love ... paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be described in no other manner than just sad. The amount of people I see in the ... (which are actually in June. Silly Cambridge). I can't wait!

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  material that I am likely never to use in my future. For those of you who are ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... shone out in thin beams of thick yellow. We were so close to the lights I ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013