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• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  brought all the metal over to the shop and Kristen welded the pie rack by ... people steal gas). It kinda worked. We mostly used strainers to get the ... and finished at around 5am, and by then, we needed to start rolling out

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... MIT and I get to do things I love and find meaning in all day long ... A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  lead to big highs, but I figured they’d be outweighed by even bigger lows ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  get me everywhere I needed to go, and to an extent, it did. This turned ... 'll get back to you on my 30th birthday. Anyway, MIT did quite a bit to ... ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... , many hours getting to know my maternal grandmother, but my grandfather ... conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  and MIT would probably throw some cash my way to get it started. I also ... back to my airport hotel in the interest of getting out early because of ... : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree ... by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it ... before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake. xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  doing that will make it easier for you to get jobs." 6.854 - Advanced ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  would get to work "if it rained". "So, what if it rained?", they said ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  financial aid office says they'll get it to me next week. Are they really that ... Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until ... as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  wonderful and fun, but it was getting late, so I decided to head back to my ... time to get back to my room. Stay tuned for a fun day trip idea! ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... her I was saddened by my floppy undercooked crepes, she told me to 1 ... all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  for the pun pagtanda "to get older" and pagtanda "remembrance". 11 ... Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), and it gets a dedicated post this ... none have been noteworthy enough to get their music mentioned or linked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA ... weeks trying to get our microphones to work. Even the TAs were stumped ... eventually fixed the problem somehow (I think by switching to slower but

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... was about as close as I was going to get to anything math ... wait until my second semester to begin a UROP, so that I could get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... and planned for whenever i work up the courage to get it...the list goes ... directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in-the-world-by ... playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020