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• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... neatly to the story of the brownies; a few days ago, I decided to try my

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  of a relationship so I tried to break up with my boyfriend. Perhaps ... -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  I finallyget back to my room, Dennis and I just share a look of wide ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  came to MIT, but certainly there are analogies with scientific models of creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... to connect their knowledge of the past with the immediate present and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... death sentence. #5 proved to be the low point of the day, even though the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... have to climb out of bed to turn it off. Intense hat from Russia Fall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... mechanics to explain in terms of current/voltage. But when viewed in terms of ... Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students ... myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... precious test time. 20.110 is designed to be graded out of 545 points: 100

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to an Oregonian best friend studying abroad in France. Lots of eggs ... blog posts as I wanted to make. I have little bursts of creativity ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those ... to Elder. A group of students was also going to lunch and reached the ... Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also ... 's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... supreme grand champion of the environment myself... ...I was excited to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  to you to deserve that kind of treatment? Have a friend read your ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... spoke to us a few weeks ago!"] A Cup of Water Under My Bed [/annotation ... ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... 're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about ... . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... , to the point where i began making lists of songs to learn, and then i ... this mashup of ennodu nee irundhaal and permanent. the first few seconds

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  any of those editors. They took my manuscript to acquisitions meetings ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022