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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... . After a short walk to McCormick, we reached her room and I finally put all

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... apply to grad school, there’ll be a glaring “D” in my Fall 2007 semester ... class seriously. I’ve wanted to get back into music for a long time (I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to analyze Hamlet, or a Harvard student to solve a math problem. So I'll leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  skull this week and because I want to go do a few cartwheels on Random ... anyways. On Monday, I printed out everything I had to read, which also means ... the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  . When the onion begins to take on a golden shade, add water to the skillet ... cumin and pepper, and place chicken legs, skin down, on the oil to pan ... lid on skillet, and allow to steam until almost all the water has

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  . Heat a small non-stick pan on medium and add butter to coat. (I only did ... really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a ... 'm also trying to be a little more conscious about the food I intake, trying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... out the door. I wanted to witness the magnificence of a Cambridge twilight, a previously unfamiliar event to me. And, let me tell you, such did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will ... particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  precious to me.  To be honest, my hair has always been a source of pride. Or ... . That sounds a bit melodramatic, but it used to feel true. I actually still have a lot of trouble with this. Every few weeks, I force myself to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... responded saying he’s too busy this semester to be a supervisor Decide to go ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... screenshot of course notes: This relates the NYC subway line to a concept ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton Conner TV Lounge. When one event was over I'd clean up from it, take a 30 ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before ... and making flowers, so I squeezed a  on top of the cake instead. Then I ... playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... beside a massively useful towel. And on the subject of nerd movies and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  completely unrelated class and decided (very serendipitously) to invite me on a ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... ’t actually move from point A to point B but instead just spontaneously appear

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025