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• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... -shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a ... Goosebeary's yesterday, I was down to a mere two dollars in cash. Luckily

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  @MIT, you could grab a bite to eat before the performance begins. After ... friend would randomly send me a puzzle to solve that would help me later on ... opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... to do with turning an idea into a commercially viable business—from market research to finding a team to prototyping to fundraising to hiring

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  immature'?" It's possible to be "too honest," yes. :-) I've seen this in a ... either. I know this is a vague answer; I just can't think of a way to ... of sat and descided to take a chance for this year as these may lead to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really ... with my 18.01A lectures, which involved many panicked messages sent to my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... with MIT, but it just gives you a better opportunity to meet more people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new ... interests, and connecting to a new support network when even MORE

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... time as you need to process. Here are a few of my favorite You ... Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... someone who can't talk to people and who only sticks her nose in a book... nobody's holding a gun to your head. If anything, MIT students are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  demonstrated with every blog entry why he was destined to become a successful doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in Indiana :) I want to get into a heartfelt section here about failure, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before ... ". But until you can talk to AI bots like a regular person, they won't see

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... must provide the student the opportunity to receive a credit

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  to...?" Luciana glanced up hopefully. "Oh! Amore mio, I promised you a ... . Afterwards, let's go to Luigi's and you can paint me there. Make it a good one ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks ... you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  We were so lucky to have the UA Alumni Affairs Committee invite John ... at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) -- back to campus to share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors ... at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a ... practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of ... on a Wednesday for NO REASON—it was so good lol walking to 7/11 late

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... personality points, etc. 1. Create a list of everything you want to include in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... paradise to most MIT students, staring at a 17 question Analysis problem set

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students ... develop at MIT, Kellen recruits students to take over these accounts for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015