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• Blog / How to Food

  this pan is going places oh, and i guess i am too

  

  -Alt. The result? 4.61 pounds of questionably seasoned cast iron flying a total of [annotation note="a pit stop was made for an older brother ... time management choices. I daydreamed of living a nomadic lifestyle in

  • by Emily P. '28
  • September 13, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  ; many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of them, with the possible exception of stata, can rival simmons. whether you think simmons is a masterpiece of postmodernism or an aesthetic

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part of the project — there were vital sections of the project that I never ... . Seeing everything come together was so rewarding. I love the feeling of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an ...  hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... swallow any sort of intelligent thought that had survived the oxygen

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... — indicates a spot of high photo density and a clump of memories. here are some

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my ... has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016