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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1 ... -caliber fastidiousness and acclaim," I think I'm a 6. Maybe a 6.5? I don't really know. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of ... to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because ... "]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  the trance that comes after watching a good movie or a good book, the ... reply back and wouldn’t think you’re weird because you’re starting a conversation for no reason opening a fridge immediately after closing it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  (DACA), a program that allows undocumented students meeting certain ... . A few months ago, after the Presidential election, I posted an entry ... universities — an institution built on intellectual excellence, a meritocratic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  beginning. There exists a popular webcomic called xkcd. Its creator: Randall ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He's kind of a big deal around here. Then one day there was this: I had a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom ... two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a Southern accent. Really, I still don't think I have a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... Infinite Corridor: Otherwise known as a bustling, oft-clogged artery of MIT ... taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... they work. Vivek Venkatachalam, a Senior in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago. Pictures were taken, trips were made, food was scrutinized. But as happens a ... is the best? Campus might have a general consensus. But tbh there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Hello! Just giving a quick update on what's going on with my life and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid twenty minutes because I showed up too early. Pretty soon, I grabbed a seat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

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

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  've been chugging work from such a consistent, ever ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this semester. A true break. A break where, after the fourth midterm you've taken

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017