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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little ... somehow, for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  ever should, using my right index finger alone. Take, for instance ... way, but let's save that story for another pair of parentheses). I felt ... for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both ... officer for NROTC. IAP '08 came and went without a post, and that was ... all into that module. I did, and I think it paid off. For some reason my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... class where the only instructions were, "Okay, read this paper, come up ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  Cambridge, and caught up over coffee (an iced mocha for Paige, a black cold ... months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  ended up here. And, also, I think it's important for me not to inflate my ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the ... 've had a lot of experiences with fabrication. For those of you unfamiliar

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester, to find out where my limits are." So I signed up for 8.012, and ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... .012 make me so miserable...and for what matter, what is 8.012? Well, let me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... of Boston, and meeting up maybe once a day with their daughter/son for ... ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  quiz coming up for this soon, so we’ll see how that goes. 1.037: Soil ... /petition, coming up on march 9th"]Add Date[/annotation] quickly approaches. My ... environmental engineering"]Course 1.[/annotation] So, here’s what I’ve been up to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  News, the story has been picked up by at least 67 news organizations ... right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... space. And Jones is blunt about the consequences. The quest for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... thing about urban Boston, and one I wouldn't give up for the world, is ... experiences for the blogs, so I asked the blogger Slack for some questions for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  easily meet up to hang out in the city. We’d meet up for dinner at my ... could do pull-ups, I’d substitute them out for ring rows. I love the ... sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  ’d just use one of our coffee filters wrapped up in a little cone for this ... cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings ... [/annotation] with a sign that says “Free Listening.” I’ve never actually gone up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up ... . (Minor spoiler for Paige’s post: You can represent points as coordinates ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  surreal). During COVID, while waiting for the New Zealand borders to open up ... . Luana: I recently wrapped up my third semester at MIT. Opting for more ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  basically the only board game on floorpi that i would end up playing for the ... 't line up well enough for us to play on floorpi often anymore, so a ... 've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023