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• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely ... going places is, which means I'm definitely going to spend more time off ... -day music festival in Delaware. as an MIT student, this seems unthinkable

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of MIT, or because I left my high school, or because I am officially no

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this ... application is open to all MIT undergraduates of any class year. This ... admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... favorite parts of the year is our retreat in the woods with other East Coast ... ! All of my fire-related videos live here. Below is a reel of some skills

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard ... nights of no sleep. Everything is shockingly clear in those hours, yet the ... crystals in the Boston skyline. The air is cool and devoid of worries. If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the ... here is Nico F. '16, one of the members of RingComm, the committee that ... picture with Harry! Thanks to Will R. '16 for taking this picture! Here is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  fireworks, and devouring a variety of delectable treats. Here at MIT, a few ... Fawkes masks were everywhere in the Infinite!     This is one ... sheen. Apparently the same is true when George masquerades as Guy Fawkes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH ... , and desire to learn. Once you are in MIT, you can use the Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  . MIT "hacking war". I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two ... : Stata Center (side facing Vassar Street) Hack: Giant property of MIT bar ... find "IHTFP" in the bars. And the serial number on the banner is the cost

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent ... average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -minute bike ride from MIT, which seemed decent. After touring it, however ... . I'm so, so happy that this is all over. Signing the lease was such a ... to some degree. So...I've only been through the clusterfuck that is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  else. While chatting with a MIT graduate who is now in the top rungs of ... culture is great and everything, but I live there because I ended up hanging ... ’s--to me, EC is a home, not a social statement. Like my internship: it is a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... the MIT Media Lab arch: Perfect start to CPW, yes? :) This awesomeness

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... humanities side is often neglected.   Ragù (Bolognese) sauce in its birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  . Taking a break from MIT has been a great privilege, one I'm aware is not an ... MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab LuminAR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... . Work is divided into two-week sprints, where we organize ourselves into

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008