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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  ’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... leaving in the past. Honorable mentions included missing having access to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  awarded in the following categories: -Apple Pie -Apple Cobbler, Crisp, or ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... here I am. Hello again!  I knew I wanted to write something, but in my ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I ... to hear again. So in honor of my last first day at MIT, here are some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  committing to the grill or [annotation note="The station with 'regular' hot ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... sandwich To toast my sandwiches, I often use the toaster ovens found in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to ... , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels ... you live? What do you want to major in? Who do you want to be? There

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

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... ="the café in lobby 7 used to be peets coffee, and they had the mocha javiva

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can ... ! Unfortunately, when you put in enough work to make a bomb calorimeter stop being a ... ’m cheap, so I decided to take Spanish II in the spring to avoid having to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... break from labeling videos to eat dinner in the dining hall, I caught

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... mechanics in my psets, but then I felt a resistance to truly hunkering down

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• FAQ / International applicants

  Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?

  international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which ... Students holding dual citizenship should apply to MIT with their U.S. citizenship status. Students holding non-U.S. dual citizenships may select
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  hours a day. You're probably used to being in class seven or eight hours a ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found ... should be careful not to overcommit themselves, but working two or three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  to spend all my time sitting in cafés, running around with people, or ... watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... research—and now I want to dip my toe (or maybe my head or my entire self

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a ... skyline is shown at night, in tribute to the fact that MIT students are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  be majoring in course IV [architecture], or you have to be taking a ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010