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• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... simulated using a table with five levels, including a Freshman, Sophomore ... credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a causal relationship with a dorm's culture. Let me explain... Take the East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  a service project with APO. APO is "a national coed service fraternity ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the basement, there were huge stacks of paper, though apparently there were a lot

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  Media Lab, a classmate accidentally shattered my laptop screen. While I was with my group presenting our project, I left my coat on a chair ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still ... . anyway, last tuesday, andy and dylan made an undertale-themed menu, with a ... steak in a long time. esp has a yearly traditional texas roadhouse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the ... .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a ... ="Unless you'd like to burn yourself. Then use a triple crochet."]will make a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle (and actually like a 17 min walk from Next House which is the furthest down dorm row). There are a few other nearby options for groceries as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... it was, for a pset) and for the rest of the class, he immediately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... really, not something i was aware of until a few months ago. but evicting ... a life update. i've been stuck with writer's block, like i have been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a ... a Santa Claus. Supposedly one of the most reprinted newspaper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent ... . Make Memories. Prepare. After all this is a really special time. A time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they ... . It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... ) and the traditional empanadas, stuffed with meat, egg, and a singular

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... things happened!! Look! I’m a robot! Now I’m a circus performer! (excuse the obnoxious vertical format ^^;) Now I’m a podcast! Now I’m 21

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest. Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014