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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight ... steps into the kitchen to take a break. Was it a late lunch? An early ... was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  freshman arrived to MIT, never having felt the warmth and tenderness (and blow to the wallet) of an on-campus grocery store. With La ... then, over two years passed. To tell you the truth, it seemed as if all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have ... . Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of ... of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats ... roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and watch the season slowly slip through my fingers. I remember going to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6 ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... to make my own manga. A few years ago, I took CMS.301, Critical

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  "What if..?" when it came to joining the other sorority. This past spring ... Panhel rules like how sororities aren't allowed to throw parties or go to ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  next four years were to hold. I was anxious about living so far away from home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking ... ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious, but I considered them all quests that I was determined to achieve ... building numbers - 83%. To assess my final knowledge of the MIT building

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on ... ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019