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• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory ... how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... comforting to see. The truck arrived, we rushed outside in the dark. A UA rep

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  meat that will, in the future, help the local slaughterhouse to determine meat quality. I am located in Leon, Guanajuato but I have been able to ... individuals, who are on fire for God, in order to learn Israel's importance to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... ; A spring in Warwara, Kaffa, where residents walk to collect drinking ... mountain spring). My two cousins collect water from it in a plastic bottle to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... handing stuff out in front of Building 7 (the main entrance to main campus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... —but to me, art is still the escape. Of course, writing in particular is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... area; it can be in any of these fields. You don't have to concentrate in ... not have three thousand dollars or whatever to pay the RIAA in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs ... and underserved students interested in science, technology, engineering ... science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to ... . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  have included in an email to Next House, ranked in tiers from most to ... , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... advertisements! Sometimes you've just got to advertise for something unrelated in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the ... screen. So many people dropped in to view the show, students and faculty ... On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2 ... back to spend some more time in Rome and the Vatican, headed to Florence ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... to have all three during my weekend in Michigan (even had two

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In ... @MIT Fly-In, take a moment to read about the program from Vaneeza ... played a game of “Rural Students Bingo,” in which we try to fill a bingo

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... 've been writing to since my freshman year in high school will be taking a ... technology to address the basic needs of low-income households. In many ways

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005