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• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... -tuition expenses for this semester. Breakdown of Total Personal Expenses: Notice ... fridge/cabinet space.) Practically all of the food that I paid for last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  for 3 hours, demolishing half a biology problem set, watching classic ... bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  (nicknamed "strobe alley") now stands as an invaluable resource for students ... on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the ... with three large binders of negatives, a taste for medium format, and a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  school friend Shana for that bit of information. Finding myself suddenly and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use ... changed, and with trips for every other weekend this summer already planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a ... also an all-time record for my school. Now comes the funny part ... , demonstrated that I was willing to take risks. I see posts on CC and comments on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led ... strawberries for a dollar each. It was a sweltering hot day, so we retreated to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  the sales tax for the weekend to encourage people to go shopping. Adam ... if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several ... for an 8.01x (physics) test which was to occur the next morning. My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  engineering. Ironically, selling Champagne will help Molly Pounds pay for her ... bought by saving for half the cost and having her parents chip in the rest ... , said she knows her daughter is ready for college. "She's more mature than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  who was known for his crazy sayings and no nonsense demeanor. He had little patience or tolerance for anything that wasted his time. Whenever he got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... one by class registration/textbook shopping/pre-semester club meetings ... do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  -and-possibly-poisonous candy shop of miniature programming classes. For instance: [Conversation ... entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... . But for now, GR1 is a thing of the past. The staff let us use the ... dominoes, one then another then another then us choking on words in front of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at ... pencil case. I became familiar with shop equipment in 2.00b and constructed ... studying for swe interviews because of my explorations as a novice electrical

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a ... for poetry writing, though, so there's that"]annoying.[/annotation] To ... , dotted with coffee shops, gay nightclubs, and tattoo parlors. krav maga

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was ... . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... for Food Trucks", all led by experienced food truck entrepreneurs from

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so ... got a chance to blog about how last semester wrapped up for us, but we ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  , admiring all the trees. For the past two years, I’ve spent more time away ... research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn ... proves that it is possible. And she does have time to go out for ice cream

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  seriously, all-nighters are bad for your brain. 3. Shopping is therapy ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... family actually grew up here so it was familiar for them! It was really ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021