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• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... stop chasing perfection. I wanted to talk about moving in, finally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt ... this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... friends this summer eventually turned into, “it’s too much effort to get ... officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles ... [/latex] in total), and we'll get the area of the circle! However, this sum is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... in my room escalated back to numbers that looked like my test scores in ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that ... way for you to get involved - just download, log on, and get saving ... ="just the pearls, without the tea"]boba[/annotation] in addition to the batch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... ’s exit options to attend medical school, but I recently checked her LinkedIn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in fact, all that hard; it's a lot harder to get into law school or medical school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  trying to debug the worst code i’ve written in my life." hopefully you get ... posters and programs in this blog, and get paid to store my memories here ... another two hours. once i finally mustered up the willpower to get up, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  sets in advance, so we traded between ourselves and tried to catch a ... , making it all the way to the highest point in the rainforest and back in ... forest. in the late afternoon, we headed to a nearby beach, which was one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  flu virus or cold gets passed around. Every now and then a game has to ... , which is typical in Guild, but it was all stuff that we expected to happen ... —players started running around trying to get their plots done—and then game

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!   ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019