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• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in ... research you yourself are interested in -- my friend Ethan '05, for example ... So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... harassed me for scanning in the list upside down. Oops. :) And my cursive ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  option for student events at MIT, but I'd never eaten at the restaurant in ... the only place where it's socially acceptable for me to get food in my ... I don't live in a cook-for-yourself dorm.) [image_grid images="114055

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... love for art in so many ways on campus. The people are what make it ... cultural groups waiting here for you. I was one of the only Filipino kids in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  for all but one semester. This summer in Berlin, I lived alone again ... fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  .  Put all the ingredients except for the potatoes in the rice cooker. The ... There are two meals I’ve had consistently this quarantine: for breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ’t looking? For a blissful moment, I breathed in peace. Then I reached my ... I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and ... exactly did all that time go? That's an answer too long and boring for this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  in Boston, and an invaluable source of carbs for marathon training. I ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  spring, briefly joined Next Act, a show performed in Next House for CPW ... watching the show? some were in it for the comedy: the laughs and gags, like ... naturally, i don’t believe in authorial intent, for to do so implies that the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  has never produced any excruciatingly annoying occurrences for anyone in ... gating feature that was responsible for most of the noise reduction in the ... encasing my detector in as much lead as possible and hoping for the best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  centre for sending the info.The man in faxing centre sent the cover letter ... stand out in many ways besides awards. We do not try for a 50:50 gender ... to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time ... this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  that hits me right in the feels. For the magically-inclined: The ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... will all crowd in the kitchen for waffles and a good time, and I cannot ... exhilarates because it means forward action, and not just in classes, but in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  credits, T is a temporary placeholder for a class still in transit, and P ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure, the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in ... ", but preparation was required for our various adventures. We bought (in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... lab for two and a half years, I know what I'm doing in a technical sense ... talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005