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• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  he need to be warmer? I tried different setups to keep him warm. Was he too warm? Did I need to cycle my heating lamp on and off? He grew, but ... perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... 've applied to MIT this millennium, you probably interacted with Gisel, who was ... the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  spontaneous and disorderly, and our parental need for control tends to derail ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Disneyland with us. Oh dear, Adam's dad is at the Braintree split -- I need to ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9 ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... exciting events out there. NightMarket is also sweet because theres so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  on a roof or behind a door that is supposed to be locked does. however ... to me. If you think you're such a l337 h4Xx0r who could do so much ... -world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  have preparing for quals in grad school -- your knowledge needs to be ... meant to build on top of each other, and you continually need to revise ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  learned in 6.0002; when I needed to explain a concept to my students, I had to truly understand it beyond the level needed to just complete the ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... to talk to you about college decisions and my own experience. When I applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops have been harvested, children are no longer needed as farmhands, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ... much as i do are the ones who want to torture virtual people to let

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  about your needs for the weekend, the help that you'd like, and to what ... MIT students spent much of last week trying our best to find every one ... weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  students spent much of thos week trying our best to find every one of you a ... , the weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  those of you who have yet to arrive, no need to fret!  There will be ... Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  stuff you need to go dig through all the blogs for it. The new site will ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Wednesday, the line is much shorter, more similar to what the lines were the ... MIT told us that we need to quarantine ourselves, and interact only with ... One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the ... also frantically looked for stuff to do) that said, "Keep Calm and if All Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most ... . Today, something magical is happening. Students, DSL team up to bring

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  really need to finish?) before dismissing us for the day. And now you know ... interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005