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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... giving away free Vitamin Water (I've recently become a big fan of Vitamin

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... classmates had learned and done. I’m still intimidated sometimes, now, but I’m also realizing something else -- two something elses, which I think maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here. This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and ... movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I ... front porch and padded down the sidewalk – so, appropriately, I squealed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  . But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... through writing alone. To all seniors: wow. I empathize with you a ton. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  This blog post is an ode to whiteboards, which I love very, very dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... …”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... . This might be a little unclear, but don't worry – I explain it better later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... sides I avoided lest I get salmonella poisoning, or cancer, or, worse ... sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if you've seen one milling machine you've seen them all, so I trust that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  process. I could go through it step by step with you, but Ben's already ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many of you approached your essays and your overall style and flow. Dare I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on a whim. Sometimes I have good whims and sometimes I have bad whims ... Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... results, findings, and analysis. Not to mention I'm staying gainfully

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! As much as I loved the MIT gym, I don ... . So I am following Mollie’s lead and posting an update on my life after MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... fun. You got the same grade only he had more fun."   I read that statement, it made me cringe, and I decided I don't want that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... . You can still drink it for two weeks after." I have a strong feeling ... too bad that I poured the entire thing down the drain. Yeah, so I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI 2015, Maker Faire (NYC) 2014), but I rarely provide advance notice before I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016