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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  the emotions that coincide with the MIT Gamut (a term I just made up ... . That was my issue with it, it wasn't hard enough to be scary (and thus ... immediately follow it with another test that I would need to study copiously for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  fondue - people can dip strawberries or try chocolate flavored with strange ... chocolate varieties, flavored with everything from habanero pepper to chai tea ... has experimented with are wasabi-lime truffles and Marmite truffles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... with soaring skyscrapers, farmer's markets, pseudo-Italian street food

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  -mail address, financial aid information, a DVD with videos made by each of the dorms, a book describing the dorms, and a list of dorms with a ranking ... slightly obsessed with a song entitled "Shoot the Zombies." Here's our cover

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  times. I guess I'll start off with an introduction.My name is Celena Chan ... CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... been an influx of Californians during that hour. I met up with my friend

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  trilogy, except with less irony, lower production values, and no Bruce Campbell). Since my last selection, "Monsturd," didn't go over so well with ... time or face expulsion from The Midnight Society or whatever. So, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by ... contains the supplemental materials by now? The disc is labeled with my name ... chipotle." I've never had Chipotle, so I'll go with mudfud on this one. just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer ... and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... words or with common logic. Who is asking to read LaTeX and then going

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... programs with companies and labs all over the world, or teaching programs ... different countries. Right now, I’m staying in Bristol with Anika (READ HER

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh ... ="aligncenter" width="1400"] the feast we were welcomed with![/caption] The next day, on

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with ... official college soccer game, my time with the team is not over yet. We have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... ) soda I drank with dinner[/annotation] that powered me through editing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that exceeds, say ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it ... , acquainted myself with the wall, and attempted the beginner level- success

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  've been very precious with preserving my energy. Even then, I'm not ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun ... won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel ... rides, so here’s those interspersed with some photos of Iceland (that

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  students with a team-based product development experience. Students will ... pack into Kresge, MIT’s largest auditorium, with overflow rooms and a ... watching Animo, below, in person with my jaw dropping to the floor. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... computer doing work, and then I'd be struck with an inexplicable sadness ... afternoon and ended an hour before he came back. It doesn't interfere with my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 scale seems arbitrary and intellectually lazy, with far too much potential

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  2014, someone met up with the MBTA Director David Carney to ask him why ... that time," Carney said. Coming from an area with virtually no public ... you learn to put up with when you're a country mouse coming to the city

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022