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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my ... for it. I stood up, walked over to the table, put the goggles down ... friends Friday. So I stayed up Friday night watching Pineapple Express with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the ... up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just ... my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Snow Goose Gift Shop to ask for directions, but ended up talking to ... visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... opportunity for a burger. Mr. Bartley's are awesome. Also, their sweet potatoes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  (?) inch telescope and set it up on Glacier Point to observe for two nights ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  jammed up today, and it would be hard for us to meet up. Can we meet Friday ... 's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... books with me. When I went back around 8:00 PM to pick them up, they were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... waiting, like when I want the reactor to heat up from ambient temperature to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  then. Then. You look up at the board. And... Wait for it.... Wait ... So I know you're all sitting at home, wondering, "Hey, what's up with ... you guys are all thinking. It's like ESP or something. OK I'll shut up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• 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 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 / 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 / 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