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• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  ( [annotation note="As it turns out, MIT housing policies allow you to have up to ... could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... bookshelves at all so I ended up putting it on my main dresser instead and it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  It's 9:05am PST. I told myself I'd wake up past 9:14, but either due ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... up a barbecue grill on the leader raft, cook meat, pass meat around in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... " "We encourage you to come up with your own procedure to solving problems" He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological ... habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  , showing up in classics like the Delmore brothers’ “Freight Train Boogie” and ... for artists to hearken back to an imagined “simpler place and time,” as ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  supposed to balance when you have a foot up wayne: well how do you balance ... feet hurt wayne: mildly. i mean your foot's been on a thin edge for the ... foot up cj: uh huh freddie: and then put it in front of the other cj

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  ??: 1/10 “You’d probably throw up before you can drink enough for anything ... them...for purely educational purposes. RPMI (made with water ... this up in the microwave — super-pure water will superheat and explode

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  soggy wooden path opened up to the ocean, a lone dock, and the museum over ... up and away from the DJ and the one awkward pair dancing in the open ... straight for free “Thirsty? Need a Snack?” section of the room. Got drinks in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a ... understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I ... come from. Growing up, and up until recently, I was a serial flip

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  were doing astronomy research for the summer. His face lit up, in the way ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... store was empty, except for the owner and his friend, who looked at us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  have any professor as a director or musical advisor. Techiya is made up ... some connection to Judaism; they auditioned for Techiya because they ... , then going through all the major composers up to the twentieth century

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  why; according to the anesthesiologist, I curled myself up in the fetal position and had no pulse for a good 40-50 seconds. He said the likely cause ... brought with me to India is already half-full. For a rural-tribal hospital

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... worse – the dreaded neckbeard. And for something entirely automatic ... like fixing motorcycles and blowing things up. "No problem, I've got this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  Achilles heel. It’s not for want of trying. I bake a lot; last summer I kept track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... different problems, and although it was a lot of work I ended up doing just

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... 's a terrific event coming up on campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ... and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Students consider genre protocols and how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  's not like I'm going to be locked up in Building 46 for 40 hours a week. I ... ,[/annotation] and [annotation note = "Russian II"]21G.612,[/annotation] which, for a ... . It's a casual 310 units (roughly 26 classes), for 416.4 hours a week

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a ... - whether or not you take it is up to you My Card: The Eight of Cups [caption ... strolled down that path, and I’ve realized what lies there wasn’t for me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022