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• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and nothing else 🧄

  

  weeks prior to Mathcamp, in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the ... my (first and) last year of [annotation note="Canada/USA Mathcamp! It ... highly encourage anyone reading this who is a fan of math to apply >

  • by Joy X. '29
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... 't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main source of Random content) and I feel like that was partly the reason I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... of seasoning. Rush burgers come with happy times. “Grilz are hot eom ... months of intermittent warmth, we got what finally felt like spring. Even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  : Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about the insane story of how Tetris was made, and the Creator Alexey Pajitnov

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... experiments and write the final draft of the paper. I've been moving numbers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... dusty stripe of stars from Boston. Today, as you probably already know ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Money

  HUGE dormspam haul!!! 😱😱 on trust, community, and a cry for help

  

  from one of 8 states (including california!) to vote, and advertising a ... HAUL! OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS I’VE BOUGHT A LOT OF FUN STUFF SO MAKE SURE ... , mit students’ inboxes start to fill: first with a trickle of

  • by Suzuko O. '30
  • September 26, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... your past self, what you thought of things, and how little you knew of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015