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• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room ... straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight ... Side mall. I also like just walking there or walking to Newbury Street if the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask ... to or what to ask for. I started by asking one person… and they knew

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply ... few it is exactly the right course of action. Most of these students are ... few additional questions: Why is this student applying to college now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... you want to hear about or see, ask me questions, buy me tickets to the ... . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... draw the Mona Lisa blindfolded," which of course had to involve drawing ... can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  ? Is there off-street or on-street parking? Is there an in-unit washer ... were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll out of bed early enough for the parade, which when you think about it is ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... me to appreciate color pairing and fashion. This is atypical for a guy

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , definitely do not have cultures that everyone is drawn to. Thus, I know of many ... This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez ... , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... we do not have enough information. While it is important to file your ... was mailed, for the tracking system to be accurate. If on November 14th

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  which I highly recommend you all to attend) to the free showing of Lars ... which attempt to show the viewers how the end of the world affects the ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15 ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  actually dismantled parts of the building and kept them, which is why the ... Orientation Closing Ceremony, in which all the freshmen gather on the steps of Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... website is a database containing descriptions of these objects, which are ... ’s hard to explain what Homestuck is quickly, but some of its themes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without ... sunrise is sort of an unpleasant experience, it means you're running out of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  , but there are exceptions to every rule, and mine is not being bothered ... . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... to come home to food that you know is delicious, was made personally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... concerns me. So we’re going to try something called ReCaptcha on the blogs

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... little idea on how to tackle a certain problem; you will walk out of ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  her next film, which is an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake ... appeal to some of you... The (27th annual!) LSC Sci-Fi Marathon is a ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005