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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  Price Rd. to get onto Olive Blvd. and I couldn’t help but think about how ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  /sororities/independent living groups tend to have much lower housing prices, averaging about $1500 ... different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... , but I'm really glad I went. The topic, you might be surprised, to know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  more exciting books to admire from a distance. … The prices were ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than ... think they need to do to be strong applicants, and what they actually need to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  's not too much a price to pay to stay stinky for the day, at everyone else ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the blogs I started stayed half-baked. Trying to romanticize bleary

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are ... one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday, August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . Thanks to half-price Saturday, I ordered both a Vermont (cheeseburger) and ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday ... recycling bin of everything you wanted to do in Boston during the school year

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  price, and it turns out that this night they just happened to have ... really want to do them all justice, so I'm gonna answer them next week ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was ... ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this process, and want to learn about the important things that make you you. As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for ... obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... interested in energy research or energy education, be sure to check out their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005