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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  the grader. The grader can then resolve the request by awarding the full ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up ... happened over and over again. There are a ton of pset graders, so we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  the pharmaceutical drugs on the surfaces of the polymers by increasing ... one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  application, and across rooms of random hall are all drawn by former blogger ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no ... passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... phenomena represented by different parts of the spectrum (ex. warm gas and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  of childhood care. Two, I’ve been spoilt by 24/7 room service. Three ... Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other ... . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  closer by a hair's width; space disfigured such that the soft fringes of ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  , and full of vigor, began to climb. However, soon he was defeated by the ... each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever ... story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  cynical about the political activity of people my age by the time I came to ... , though, it evolved from a source of amusement into a source of irritation, even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to ... this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too ... be easy to fall back on the sweet embrace of instant ramen, easy mac

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  great being surrounded by wild animals and remembering that part of my ... fantasy part of the movie it doesn't make sense Call Me By Your Name: In ... by, and starring Bo Burnham. Recorded in the guest house of his home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  recruiter-shaped mass, you see that they’re surrounded by mountains of company swag. Having never experienced the joys of grabbing free swag by the ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Flow by Karl Sims[/caption] The particles of light are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding. Unfortunately, the only ones of you who might’ve believed that my post ended there ... proceed to do next to nothing. My interview process went as follows (note

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... many hours of discussion and back-and-forth, we've selected seven new ... maybe even their journey of figuring out who they are :) [image

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023