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• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... living at home during quarantine to when I went to live alone abroad for my ... lost my habit of cooking regularly, despite living without a meal plan

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying ... and was ready to show them to someone to get some feedback. My older ... just listed things I liked to do/did for my community. It was incredibly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... post is from a never-published draft about from my freshman fall 2014 ... my plans are. It’s a fascinating revelation. Senior year of high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C ... year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  perfect track record of silencing my phone in class. Then, one day, sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a discussion—oh the shame! Turns out, the classroom was so close to my room that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  enjoy it as well! ________________________ Hi, guys! My name is Haley ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  . My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... past cause of what my peer in-groups did, you know?) is what I mean. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I ... , on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... view from my seat in the last row, and then some of us in front of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... 't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my ... bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to ... either obvious or I should ignore it. Quoth the BPAFOSIPIDC, peering at my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ) conference for high schoolers. -Ordered my Brass Rat! -Went to a college MUN ... . This is my third semester directing the program! o___o -Graded 450 SAT ... ...etc. etc. (my favorite is the Sanrio one that's going around, haha)) Because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  flooded into my soul: ernestly did I remind Katelyn of our valuable Facebook ... 't agree more, my silver-tongued comrade. Friday's lecture featured nonzero ... trivia: Various informants have told me that the back of my head appears in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008