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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable ... responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  plot-convenient things (snerk), I knew I couldn’t keep it up for long ... is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... almost feel its venom building up like Voldemort’s, just before he

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  got a chance to blog about how last semester wrapped up for us, but we ... were really no repercussions for failure. I ended up applying many of the ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  furiously coding up last minute experiments for the past five hours with your ... might not be your permanent room for the year, so you don’t put up your ... be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  option for food and socializing. Up Your Alley (free food gold mine ... get the point. If you’re feeling up for some fancy food plans, there are ... everyone! *thanks to Dominik M. 19' for coming up with this silly, youtube

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

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  were small enough to know when someone didn’t show up for Church or for ... reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  kiwi (colloquial name for new zealanders), majoring in 6-4 and 7, grew up ... culture up close, from exploring dorm culture to experiencing real and ... comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an ... great group of friends. I thought about these two opportunities for a few

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all ... about how crazy everyone was studying for finals? They're over! Let's talk ... "study," which we really spend shopping and catching up on sleep, which are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  anyone would doubt even for a second that women at MIT sign up for science ... holds an event that tells freshmen about different options for their ... student groups and sports, pick up information, and get your email address

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  art and write for so long, but something always comes up. I don’t know ... for improvement, but I’m satisfied overall. I didn’t want to give up ... sometime last spring to sign up for the Academy that JetBrains was launching

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  up the presentation, there was a part of me that ached for that same ... finance and CS programs, I have an internship lined up for the summer, and I ... . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  how much they love us and we thank them for putting up with our antics ... Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... us lmao"]quite a reputation.[/annotation] BC is known for its floors

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  . Whether I actually improved or not is up for debate. I couldn't decide what ... I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  have a new roommate (hi Uzay), new room, new living group. I hang up all ... pika’s dining room"]CGE[/annotation] to strike up conversations with my ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  tomorrow lmao"]finishing up[/annotation] my PhD application for the chance to ... is for undergrad admissions, applications are divvied up amongst the ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work she did that I am copying) Past Blogger Wrapped, for the nerds that may

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  —i can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (click for better visibility)[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... mascots that I could use to check my searches), I looked up their mascots

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023