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• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  the fate of all of us. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  could do a thesis, but again, it doesn't fit in my schedule, and besides ... computer science classes this year, but today I only have a single lecture ... any requirements. I walk into the classroom and a bunch of people wave

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... . Assuming a new identity, almost hiding in plain sight with every costume I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  incorporate apples (and/or pear) and do not fall under the category of pie ... apples (and/or pears) An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - swap a traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... ’s grand opening, my second reaction was, “Wow, a boba machine is literally ... Tea-do (one of Boston’s very few boba shops) when he realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  makes what our students and faculty do possible. I think it's a cool ... Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun time filled with tons of ... live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... many talented, smart students not only distinguish themselves by doing high-level research as high schoolers, but also love doing so, and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... . You know how they say "Do one thing that scares you every day"? My

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  big-time...especially since I have a lotttt of work to do between now ... nearly a year. Things perked up slightly when I walked into my Delta-provided hotel room and saw a beautiful queen size bed. I curled up and (1) watched

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  , I want my free space. So that’s why architecture has been such a pain ... install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... -D; Note: every line has 10 segments, each segment has to be moved a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  have joined together like a Megazord to become the new Ben. I don ... of buzzwords, like a pufferfish wrapped in chain mail and festooned ... prospective students talk to each other. This blog is a huge part of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  world. One other thing many people do during IAP is get an internship. So ... waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... -efficient retrofits in low-income housing. I made a few site visits along the way

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Raising Steam, but I do notice a book with a title I’d fantasized about ... ’s like today was a re-do of fall, which I quite liked. I came upon this ... Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you ... year of blogging with another blogger wrapped. these have become a consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020