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• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  hundred MIT students in the room was simultaneously struck with that exact ... , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling ... phone call. The nice Nightline staffer reported that it was 4-2 Red Sox in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... ="105944" image6="105945" image7="105946" /] In the evening, a few of us practiced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... event is held in Pappalardo Lab, where the sun shines brightly through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... often in computer-science classes because there are so many people in them ... “dispenser” in quotation marks because the machines are So. Unbearably. Slow

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... played correctly you should feel like you’re moving in sync with the song ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... vagueness. There is some importance in reflecting upon and understanding which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do this semester, but in practice, it doesn't feel like it? i'm taking 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... was able to find a place to stay in Tang Hall, a grad residence right

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without ... science or tools or fabrication processes in this post, mostly because there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  grown up, in general. some thoughts: these days when i'm in an uber, or ... in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... . weighing my time in money. learning more costs of things. measuring cost in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... sentimental. It reads poorly. It clambers around in naivety, sending any ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022