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• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to try a new recipe, so once the bread is rising on its own, I'll cook ... this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when I admit that I haven't been doing it as much as I'd like to. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , which I will not link here. The reason it's so disturbing is beause it's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  bicycle at MIT? I was not able to attend CPW so it is like hard to imagine ... Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... that a good sense of humor is important.” And it’s not just engineering ... self-important. It also shows that, while work is important, we're human

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 ... interconnected neurons, give rise to our mind—our consciousness and ability to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  with most hobbies at MIT, the transition to college rigor made it hard to ... there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... Apple Pencil. I was pretty skeptical of the tablet life when it came to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  vector is “something that has intrinsic pointiness.” (This also happens to ... 're really gentle. (This is literally the extent to which we covered topology ... , is brunch. Speaking of brunch, I had it, non-metaphorically. On a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  ’t verbalized to myself: it is okay to not know everything right now. The ... over life. This post is a bit tricky to write because it’s actually ... with friends, figuring out who I was.  It is okay to tell yourself “I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it ... opening wine bottles. I seriously contemplated buying one, but it was a ... beautiful! Having toured all these European cities, it's kind of risky to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE ... while because I went to Hawaii.. oh, I know. Life is just so hard.) When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  would work. I was half asleep when I wrote it. Faith is hard to come by ... I and II," shortened to "J-lab" (an abbreviation of Junior Lab, as it ... we shorten to ICE (because we're so cool.) ICE is a capstone senior

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and ... to Alewife. We hadn’t seen much of Boston, and it was an enthralling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  with prefrosh is so amazing, it really is hard to put into words. Each ... to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It ... - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  [annotation note="Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  will to work as a unit. To not buy into that is to diminish the ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it ... and back. It was really cool to see different parts of Boston and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course ... compares to the comfort of being at home. It was nice to be around my family

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012