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• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  into the realm of the extraordinary. Take the simple dish of beef ... Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  horror of a hundred-meter hallway stretching into the far distance. you ... ; many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of them, with the possible exception of stata, can rival simmons. whether

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  form that directs the assembly of amino acids into proteins. But things ... stuff. I'll also get into other uses of gel electrophoresis as I go ... -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT ... did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  will be the single most important part of your application.While you do ... Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  importance of showing passion, especially through the essays and ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  that help us get into MIT in the slightest, if of course, we already have ... received in the first week of November will still likely make it into your ... world taken into account when considering international applicants?" No

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped ... .   10:10 PM: DINNER TIME! I feel a sense of relief when I walk into ... change into some comfy clothes and venture out of my room in search of

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  late with friends. My schedule devolved into an unfortunate amount of 3am ... started falling back into my old habit of dorm studying when most study ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... liked my job but not enough liked making a lot of money but not enough ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  't see coming or be able to fix, and another night of falling into bed ... turned a pile of plain, straight, white, splintery wood into this ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  inspiration for the title of this post. The first book was recently adapted into ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... waiting to be skyrocketed into fame as an arm model); my picture is second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013