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• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  at MIT so far. It started on a Monday night, and it feels like it ... okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... standards for "popular demand" are low), is a basic guide for those newbies

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  MIT. To any prefrosh reading this: advice from upperclassmen is ... ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  the decision at all. A lot of my time at MIT is spent reflecting on the ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  that is by necessity biased towards MIT, because of what I was thinking ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... to your web browser, and the best part is pictures are now super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... Random Hall family is being abruptly replaced by strangers who still trip ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... always leads to you and my hometown The person who is second

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... or other. 2:05 PM It is the second day of Bad Ideas, the weekend that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  . "NO GELS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE BROUGHT ON ANY AIRCRAFT." It is impossible for you to eat this burrito without ketchup, and Angela, head ablaze, is ... the people going to the same college you are, is aware of the late girl

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  MIT's BCS program is for med school?" Not being premed, I won't try to ... .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  audience and he said, "MIT is a place where strange people who don't fit in ... 's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  MIT I consider “successful” and the semesters during which I accepted ... collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve ... familiarity with the material is around the same as yours, and then it takes

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  a dude named Anton who is really into film and we watches some cool ... goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... just loitered around a bunch of places, which is my favorite way of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot ... 'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It ... Heller from MIT Medical, the class was filled with numerous once in a ... in South Africa is really defined by the conversations that I had. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  grill seasoning, which is the only spice that I have bought all summer ... cents. I have somehow convinced myself that Anna's is actually pretty healthy--at least you know that the ingredients are fresh, and nothing is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  . Attention MIT students, BART is SO much nicer than the T. Why? 1) It ... MIT, including how messed up dining is, how we lost a bunch of sports ... retribution. This is why MIT is cool. We went back to the hotel for dinner

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  ....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in ... Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are ... being around such awesome, motivated people is that when you say something

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009