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• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  exhausting stairs? I know that I don’t remember the first five minutes of ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from ... a 10-page term paper on Julius Caesar due this past Monday (the sort

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes ... from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer discounted hotel room when this whole mess is your fault. (And don't blame the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  end of the first marking period, or wait until the end of January as ... school, Java counts as Math credit, but I was wondering if the lack of ... Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  get out of it on the first floor.) 10. The basement (and MPR) Even ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... whole week, and I had to climb up 10 flights of stairs every day

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... finished blogs too for that matter). So I started the arduous task of trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  feeling it for the first time. The joy of (relative) adulthood, of free time ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  next week. It's the first week of classes, so this is terrible timing, as a lot of classes require you to be at the first session and will kick ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the first kind of “special surprise” I was hoping for. For context ... During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester, Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes ... . At the first meeting... uh, to be honest, the beginning of Taekwondo is ... "]instructor[/annotation] to eventually grasp the first part of the form: low blocks and punches

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021