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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... made happy and excited on EA day, and a lot of people were significantly ... today is the 5th day of Mekawit, 2007. On the lunar calendar, today is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... , think the idea of RBA is hokey, in the same way that I think icebreaker ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  -trekked across the width of Germany and basically all the way through Switzerland ... that fact I have never been out to visit her. So, on our way back from ... German music on trains through Italy, and one of them was by the great pop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  on the Cinnamon Toast Crunch on top. Layer on the rest of the ... sandwiches One of the best things about New Vassar dining is that you can get ... One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  is a close up of this guy's head as he's waking up on the beach. He has ... and kind of campily on Stephanie's nameless friend, who's sending a text ... in front of a palm tree, and so on--each one to the rhythm of the music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things ... challenges that will face me and I'm excited to meet new people. For those of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning ... with their bags up to 500 miles on a single tank of premium unleaded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... spaghetti and garlic bread -- good deal, I think!). I've made meatballs twice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you ... wandering in and out of Baker so something is going on there. Other than that ... of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  and keep track of all the forces on each sphere. To simulate the cloth ... discrete bands of shading on a model, like you see in 2D animated cartoons ... , although that was a factor lol. The class focused on different forms of “fun

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  Tuesday...there was a lot going on! Topics of the presentation sessions ... be doing when we see a bar chart, and the effects of color on how we ... check out what people are working on. If a piece of research looks

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... worked on analyzing a lot of data from Mission 1 to better inform our ... use of cheese in the US. To the US: It’s good to be back! And to Japan

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... dome during Rush, the Master Chief helmet on John Harvard, the model of ... new ones around every turn. I remember meeting with my freshman advisor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it ... outside. After spending most of the night on the floor of a 6-person night ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  medium is predicated on the idea that a character’s (or group of characters ... it in some way, of course, to present it as song or dance or another ... on coarser movements—how to time my entry, the broad strokes of choreo

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  traditions of running on our lunch breaks, running three laps around Killian ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of ... else bummed by the lack of female representation on this list? For some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... .) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... hallways. Collaboration is the staple of success at MIT. Depending on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008