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• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  considering how much funding to award students, already budgets a considerable ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  to Charm School. How to Dress Yourself 101. Or something. This is what ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  hardcoreness, my gift was wrapped in duct tape (to which someone joked "how are ... Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  . People told me a lot of things. About how I need to take care of myself ... my ability to get into grad school. About how I could totally recover ... . About how I can't put other things to the side to focus on my academics

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is ... first name. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  what cookies could mean to me and MIT culture, and how all the phrases ... , you know? Accept all cookies (or, how much of yourself to give away ... class, your professors talk about how you're going to use something in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but ... free time I did whatever I could to step away from it. Now that it’s all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  brainstormed. How was the class to be structured? How do you explain all of the ... I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... ?                                               Before I go back to this summer, my life thus far has been a conglomoration

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  , industry leaders, and good food? I look forward to seeing how this year’s Fo ... Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  about finally getting more piercings to care about how silly I looked. I ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  . considering how obsessed with productivity i am, it took a while to be at peace ... getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  project is bio-inspired sensing on fixed wings. We're trying to quantify how ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  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 ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  I'm forgetful when it comes to packing. Thanksgiving break, I forgot to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full ... substitute for nutrition more often than not. So how do we remember to step

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... closed the written question. I had no idea how to solve it. I went to the ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019