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• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your ... . Eventually it stopped working entirely. We did get a new toaster, though, and ... delicious thing on the planet. 4. Unplugging pressure cookers can lead to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  depth of my identity. And somehow, I seemed to reach a new level of ... --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even ... to at least get a decent grade. But now that’s mostly over--my classes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your ... your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... . However, when you work, you work from 9 to 5 (depending on where) and when ... like go to New York, or go to the beach, things like that. However, for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have ... happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... forward to, almost from the moment they first slip the ring on their finger ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is to know when to fold, when to cut your losses, and when to get out ... . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the

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

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  't have to work too hard on this project; i just had to get a decent score ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6 ... . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my ... ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from ... the top .001%. You need at least 150,000 minutes to get to this level ... their top songs to, so give it a listen! And go check out Jebby's blog on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• 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…

  

  content. First, we had to come up with some titles. All of our titles were ... computer model to predict where people will look on an arbitrary image. The ... conference was really fun. I met a ton of people AND got to swim on a Florida

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  Newsweek "How to Get Into College" magazine is now on shelves, and features ... meaning to get an entry up about painting my room, but until then, I'd like ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  further in this entry if you're still on dialup, because your computer will ... when you get to MIT. And everything that follows from here is Kim '09 ... " /> Say Hi to the friendly deskworker... if you're lucky, she'll let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... 't even ask to live! we just get put here without any say in the matter so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012