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• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  a week plus other snacks ends up being about $50 a week. Transportation (ubers), concerts and other purchases end up making the total a ... . Depending on the student, this can be up to an additional $3000 to ease the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  Stop Blowing Up together, but we decided not to start it, because we knew ... ="many of my friends try too hard, and I am constantly trying to live up to ... that Geo calls up in Jersey City, and take the LIRR to the Round One in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  arrived at Hamad International Airport with Jade, [annotation note="I met up ... the desert to pick up a rock formation, the sand falling in streams over ... Doha's most interestingly-shaped skyscrapers, lit up with every color of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  every weekday, and a lengthy pset each week. I’m keeping up with the ... rehearsals are beginning to amp up, and next week we’ll be starting to practice ... problems of the next grade up feel super hard. But this means I am forced to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  up going to Paris through London. This was a bit before the Olympics so ... I wrap up this project, I want to take some time to think more broadly about what I want to work on. What's up next I've been thinking about a

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

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  technical information, but you also build up the skills needed to communicate ... excited for this class. Plus, I could end up becoming a cool super villain ... enrolled in the course, I ended up liking CV so much that I'm considering it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  actual age would’ve matched up by now. I feel behind. I have a lot of ... Throughout June, random MIT extracurricular shit kept coming up: The East ... the summer and I had to whip up a CAD. It took more time than I had

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very-hard, [annotation note="puzzles"]fun, made-up game-problems[/annotation] that are fun

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ’ve put an amazing effort into ~keeping up with the times~ by building ... up. So close, but I just couldn’t. My top author is Orson Scott Card ... ’s one indulgence that I just can’t bring myself to give up, especially

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6 ... repeated “Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , attending staff meeting, etc. It takes up about twenty hours each week. I get ... different. This is also a symptom of growing up, not just being in a master ... ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  ."]executive board[/annotation] and how people choose to divvy up the work from year to ... don't remember."]someone[/annotation] challenged me to come up with the ... [/annotation] email, but you don't want to take up too much space. The email sign-off is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  into the Bay. But when we broke up, that future shattered into a million ... upper east side. I see a dog skittering up and down wooden floors and ... been convinced that this was a path I was giving up. By choosing the New

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  read, I see a lot that I remember vividly and still love: The Wind-Up ... 't listen to an album every day. some days, I'd play catch up and would listen ... ended up not liking an album, I wouldn't bother adding a song. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  I ended up rearranging my schedule so I could take it. The class is ... so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... every one of their psychedelic tracks (there are 20+) and ended up writing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up ... you’d like to, and you end up having to correct your course constantly ... up stuck in a place much worse than where you started. you can get all

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... things about growing up in Tucson. Felipe's and Jefe's are among my ... each week feels like coming up for air. All this said, I’m glad I went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  friends is actually starting a fine dining pop up series at MIT this fall ... it up, I'll just go out to eat instead of cooking. This is why all the ... looking up a recipe for it. it tasted okay, but the texture was wrong – too

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to ... meals, and then you pick up your meal at a specified time window, usually ... a surprise; you won't know what you’ll get until you pick it up. As

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022