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• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... need per recipe, I put them all in a Google Keep note Mealpacking Pack

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... writing class (which I would generally avoid with a 10 foot stick), it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  time that would be comparable to what I’m feeling now would be when I was a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to have research experience. I have about two years of experience in ... very hard in my bio classes. Be flexible with your path. Yeah, I know ... taken on more classes and research and networking, I would be so burned

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ,[/annotation][annotation note='Alan: I promised CJ that I would link the TikTok that he was in ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... puzzles and fixed problems in earlier rounds, we would unlock more of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... him what I'd done and that I was worried that Dumbledore would judge me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013