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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  friends.   *METALLURGY!! I am signed up for a metallurgy advising ... used to college, what it’s like to have an advisor and sign up for ... bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  following up with Tangled at 4 am (after a Seven-Eleven store trip for ... stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview ... , but have a “20's Burger Bonanza.” Together, these make up the 600ish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023