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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  another one tomorrow morning. Since I'd actually like to write something ... term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the cold with nothing to read about, though. (Speaking of, why is it so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the trees change color according to the seasons. Saurav from India asks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of learning & inferring things given data, when evaluated with respect to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  . All of the [annotation note="we use the word spread to refer to one ... this post I'm going to focus mostly on the spread that I directed for ... , even as compared to the other options, so I was really pleased when it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... -sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... experience. Kyle Markland: Learn anything and everything you’ve wanted to know

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try to make it during the next break. But given the current circumstances

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  students were divided into 8 teams. Each team had three months and $7000 to ... &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... things from scratch, from food to clothes to what you’re reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... can attest to how well they work.     Note Taking: Evernote ... magazine I've read that mentions them. I use Evernote to organize my academic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led us to Wayland, my small, moderately nowhere-ish hometown. Surprise

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  Since I'm returning to blogging after quite the unplanned hiatus ... moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants ... foot by considering that option. Allow me to demonstrate by using this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008