Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  applying for summer research positions, finishing up classes, and winding ... was gearing up for another summer of research and I was still playing ... just pick up and leave for a foreign country for months on end without

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  with us put us up for a few days, so I headed back to campus about a year ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... before the big concert; naturally, the entire afternoon was blocked out for ... ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  . General Advice for Grocery Shopping Bring an empty backpack. You should ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... 's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  up pretty chipper people (see Matt’s post). For those of you who were ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  well up as I began gasping for air, one hand barely holding the rest of ... , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  (which frees up time in the afternoon to work, and thus sleep for the ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... up into three independent branches, that I will argue provide a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  enough to employ my father for so many years. I'll keep you up to date as I ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... ’t always make smart decisions. we compete for free food and not for a high ... toss-up, a wild game of chance with thousands of lives. but it isn’t so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM ... ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... . The selection worked rather well, for we shared the love for theoretical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  sketches of random things. You can think of it as a warm-up for drawing. For ... that we created for a poster that I am now hanging up on my wall. At ... to draw a tent I saw on campus. MIT often puts up tents for major and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  in our league (and many other leagues) for seniors to dress up and race ... engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  on the board for the first time, I realize I messed up the LED routing ... Kicad from [annotation note="Electronics for Mechanical Systems II"]2 ... the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  as you jumped up and down in that crowd, holding on for dear life and ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  someone was holding it up, and getting my bag flagged for manual inspection ... amid the virtual-ness of it all. For now, I’ve gotten a messed-up sleep ... , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020