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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... sides I avoided lest I get salmonella poisoning, or cancer, or, worse ... sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if you've seen one milling machine you've seen them all, so I trust that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  process. I could go through it step by step with you, but Ben's already ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many of you approached your essays and your overall style and flow. Dare I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on a whim. Sometimes I have good whims and sometimes I have bad whims ... Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT ... ). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to take 21M.250 this semester -- until I found out that it conflicts with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... results, findings, and analysis. Not to mention I'm staying gainfully

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! As much as I loved the MIT gym, I don ... . So I am following Mollie’s lead and posting an update on my life after MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... fun. You got the same grade only he had more fun."   I read that statement, it made me cringe, and I decided I don't want that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... . I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building things, piecing things together, and constructing a product. I did not come

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... . You can still drink it for two weeks after." I have a strong feeling ... too bad that I poured the entire thing down the drain. Yeah, so I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI 2015, Maker Faire (NYC) 2014), but I rarely provide advance notice before I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... one of my favorite things I didn’t realize were math: paper art. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  [annotation note="cj: speaking is lumia n. '24"]i ... closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  wild. A bit of jolly fun, right? [💀💀💀💀💀FORESHADOWING 💀💀💀💀💀] I ... Captains, and one for the MIT Admissions Bloggers team. So I thought it would ... snipes submitted to the channel. AND I WAS 30 OF THEM.   [caption id

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  during lecture. I'm taking three technicals this semester, and if there ... ="111203" image3="111200" image4="111201" image5="111202" /] I do enjoy this class ... the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora because the trip seemed logistically inconvenient, I was tired, and I had ... the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024