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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish ... this guy, many Americans would be feasting on their national bird over

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... then the whole scene would freeze except for him? Yea, I experienced that

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... Name I Will Insert Here After Someone Recognizes Him in the Comments

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  shaped by MIT). But I would've taken the next step. I am now in my final ... :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50 ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  complete undergraduate experience I would look back on most fondly in 20 ... motivate that step in a blog post leads to insights I would never have had ... a moment, I would say that the biggest difference between the culture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I ... would be inevitable if I dwelled too much on her story. In that moment ... classes are actually really interesting. I never thought I would enjoy 6

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  that I started watching in an effort to make myself stop watching Love is ... decent bit growing up - I was in some combination of cross country and track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  would be coming this early. Thus, I ended up spending two nights in ... journey in Spain began. Over the next month, I would come to know his ... really neat that I would be learning the vocabulary for relationships in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  pursue a field that I'm interested in to mastery. I would, however, need to ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different ... that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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