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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all. That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  longer needed to consult Google Maps at every turn.  After each session ... , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  vomiting more words after being forced to write so much.  As an ... spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take away my website!) Here at MIT, the Infinite Corridor has been ringing ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from Australia found this site by Googling the phrase "what happens when you ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  merit aid (free registration required) On to the questions... FWD wrote ... Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling skills weren't good enough to figure out when Caltech adopted the beaver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  end, I’m making commitments that will force me to make things regularly ... ’s been about what I expected: seeing friends, going to class, psetting… all ... came onto campus almost every day anyway. But it felt official to move

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... field extensions to love and all relationships. The whiteboard by my door

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  response to my "Don't Panic" index cards, Psylochwa asked, "So if you don ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... again quickly). And I'm sure that's all you care to hear about the GREs, so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  pineapples, so of course, I used my trusty sidekick Google to get me through it ... farmer's market near the Government Center T-Stop comes to life. Saturday, my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  with the bubbles there. If you happen to Google yourself and stumble ... to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my ... you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  . And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also ... Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  and try to finish my PSET, generally making my life less stressful ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... segment from CBS's "Big Bang Theory"] I'd like to use this video as

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had ... questions that require more than a quick Google search to answer correctly ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... website seems to say that there are no ATMs or branches near Boston, and I ... Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German ... In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  waste of trees, I was overcome with self-denial and forced myself to pick ... could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  looks like: link to the google sheets here Making Grocery Lists Sample ... they do, and/or possibly join, reach out to them on their website!) ... problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018