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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  to make charcoal Read on, grasshopper....   What is charcoal ... Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  relative to campus tends to make them a tight knit bunch.   ??? Campus ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  my favorite place largely due to the mall of food just a staircase away ... a few spots that are normally open at the hours that we like to P ... four years here. On a side note, I rode my longboard there to take the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... couple months, I've said a lot of hopefully-temporary goodbyes to a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  also wished to make more money than a [annotation note="it pays minimum ... advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way ... of those failures to heart, even though I was minorly salty about a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  (s) accept me Valid Thought you might enjoy this meme ❤️​ to a photo Lmao That ... that class  [last semester]” whatever This’ll make a good blog Lmaoooooo ... morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  and at home, but this was a close contender from what mom used to make ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... course, graduation), and often, they make the game a lot more interesting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... because it gives me a legitimate reason to use my crayons. Otherwise I just ... (Advanced DV Lab), which is a continuation of the making

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... bone at me because they wanted to give me a shot. Earlier that night, I ... 'd compromise my morals for a job because frankly, I needed to take what I can get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  'm determined to make the most of it.  I want to join a musical or a dance group ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  make myself fall asleep. When I came to Cambridge, I made it a couple ... has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  Admissions officer available to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure ... . Everyone here wants to make sure our application process is as fair as possible. MIT is reaching out to our current students to make sure they

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining ... East (a wing of Next House) to 3West (another wing of Next House). Less ... four hours. Bam: a smash cut to me walking to my first class of the day

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  purchase a solar-powered biodiesel station to make their dream of turning ... calamities: pretend it’s not happening, accept defeat, or try to make ... must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007