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• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman ... because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that's right kids I'm cool (this is sarcasm) if everyone else is doing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a ... how to decorate a shelf to keep it pretty but functional, but that might ... preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions ... on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER. And in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , and I collapse in a couch at a lounge. This was, in fact, how their quad ... liked having big rooms. I’m in, say, a board game group that meets up ... all I needed to do is sit in the lounge and wait, where I could play

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in the groove of working through a task now that I’m in the second week of ... being bored. One of the best parts of working at a smaller company is that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which should I do?"* *Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  's name is Quicky... that could be a did you know." So I just got this e ... DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• 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

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... way I do. I cook because it is the perfect hobby for a busy lifestyle ... ’ve found is to try appreciating the tiny moments in my daily life that I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  while we ate. Afterwards, I’d spend a free hour relaxing in the lounge ... events that year because I had a class conflict with the weekly seminar ... how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  a later post)! This also means that this will be the first time I ... . *(I run on MIT Standard Time, which means that anything before 2 pm is ... There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to ... I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  , family, and whatever it is that you do for fun. I personally have a long ... the things in your life that you once thought were important. It’s a ... prompt, I will say that it is naïve to think that you can get away with not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For ... wiped out by a single antibiotic. In the same way, cloning is boring since ... Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  that this is, in fact, a theme of my overall life already. I read a ... some point in that last hour and a half, I ended up falling asleep, and ... like, but I am hoping that there is still a good hour or two of working

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  number is not 100% set in stone. I am not yet sure how many bloggers will ... solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection ... (in the interest of full disclosure) you should know that we will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  attending a [annotation note="the fact that I was a debater will surprise ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  research very much. Here is a blog about that whole thought process. I was ... grading was pretty strict) Learning how the world works—and that there is a ... because I have fond memories and learned a lot from them. Some classes that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  , commencement is over, and I'm officially an MIT graduate. That's still a little ... repeatedly in your lives is how to use the talent and the education that you ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  question is here! Q: What do I do next? A: First, you should create a My ... Bridge financial aid instructions here. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017