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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... frostbite. Thankfully, we were indoors for most of the trek across campus ... snag an unreserved table in the back with a fairly direct view of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly ... of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try ... of quarantine, we were given the chance to make the recipes earlier ... . Here are some of the things we've made! Vegetable Rice Bowl by Maangchi

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New ... of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application ... about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may ... member of our community the ability and passion to work collaboratively for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  . Here's the thing: One does not simply experience heat and/or humidity in ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  and meticulousness were the defining traits of a good engineer ... engineering student, I have realized that the qualities of a good engineer are ... the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... , whatever it is, it probably involves most of the floor's help. It was neat

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... ! My favorite part was when we went to the very top of the Prudential ... -picking: And enjoy views like this: Part III: Fall Semester One of the most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... principle of metathesis. What is that? Organic substances contain the element ... with the assistance of special catalyst molecules. Metathesis can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate ... campus, with the exception of the freshmen who are living in French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  enjoyable and meaningful way," said Amanda. Over the span of five weeks, that ... weeks of the challenge, Eric had a harder time narrowing down volunteers ... trying out more engaging initiatives brought the best out of their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... "]more difficult[/annotation] than for some of the other languages in this list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest ... from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has helped substantially raise the registration and voting rate of MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of ... the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... … that was the beginning of the end. ok basically I have a lot of tote bags (25 exactly) so here are all of them: the ones I use the most

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024