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• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... breaking a few weeks after that--it started doing the thing where you have to ... cooker right after it beeped, which led to this. (Most of these disasters

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  struggled with falling asleep, but once I was out, it was hard to wake me. I ... my best to ignore it. The second time was at 6 AM or so, around Toledo ... ready to rumble. Nothing much else to say right now; after all, I’ve been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to ... you couldn’t make up.” Go watch it on Apple TV after this blog! It’s my ... is my goal to beat it. Recently, though, I’ve gotten into watching

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... ’ve cooked in the past, if you’d like to look at it. My more recent food resume ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and ... . . . sweet potato. It's fun to make Hamentashen with friends, it's a great ... "Sniviling" and "Snivility" and how it's a great thing to accuse your opponent

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  that yes, it's possible. I came to MIT thinking I was going to choose the ... possible to come with an almost clean mind about a subject (not much prior knowledge) and major in it. I know it's nice to think that "you can do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  green next time I visit East Campus. It’d be so cool to live there, too ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW, it just felt possible, mostly because I met so many people I knew I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... important to see. It's critical to understand how students react to the work ... it! Don't forget to leave your name and class year, like "Snively '11

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed ... think dinosaurs are cool too.) After shopping, Adam's mom needed to get ... at Hollister. After shopping, I wanted to go see Rent, but I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  After much deliberation over the 66 applications we received this summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Hala K. ‘29 from Michigan, who built not only robots but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... school)[/visually_hidden] I have always found it difficult to succinctly

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly ... -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  them and sent it over to NM. True story.) We also went to the same FPOP ... than course numbers. He knew what it felt like to stay up tooling all ... the NYC area :( ). It's so much fun to keep in touch with MIT, and it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  retired after 20 years with the company. It was so special to be able to be ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... think it's important to let the people in your life know that you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... ambulance from its battery-charging socket and attempted to ease the ambulance ... 'm trying to keep warm. After two unsuccessful jumpstarting attempts (and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  knows how to dance; he dresses well," Sarewitz said. "It's too high a standard for geeks to possibly live up to." All the nerds at home can at ... used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  't give you guys access to a live demo because it's proprietary ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it’s ... to me when it was time to work. So, it’s a good idea to occasionally

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... Chinatown bus down to New York City! It's about a four hour ride and it costs ... , offered free french fries to other tourists after almost dumping mayonnaise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  you guys; and I think it's safe to say the other bloggers feel the same ... exactly how it felt to prepare myself to click that one final button, the ... ...we mean it. To all of you waiting to hear back from other universities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to ... it out to Bumpkin Island in Jeremy's lovely little not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006