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• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  went wrong. However, as a proud Michigander, I dismissed their warnings, convinced that the storm wasn’t that serious (I swear I’m not a climate change ... this winter - how bad could it really be? 20 INCHES OF SNOW. THAT IS HOW

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  triple-GEMs has a lot of fascinating applications. The application that I ... future. She also has a minor in French and is thinking about putting some ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked ... without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially finished blogs too for that matter). So I started the arduous task of trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... exploration is a fine substitution. It's just like non-carcinogenic sugar substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  fools and I make up the 2012 RingComm. We have been seeing each other a ... ever seen. OUR Brass Rat. I AM SO EXCITED EXCLAMATION POINTS CANNOT DO ... (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on ... appointment with my therapist ended with the conclusion that i'm doing better ... i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  ’m like - HEY! That’s great! And then I remember, the public library IS MY ... to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... incredibly long time to create. the camera i was using took photos in a format ... uploaded to this website in that form, so i had to convert every single one

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging ... courses, but I've also committed to a bunch of cool side projects/UROPs that ... Being An Adult (whatever that may be). Hopefully I'll be making a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  that I knew I wanted to go into neuroscience (which is still a relatively ... people and say, "hey, I'm interested in working with you - do you have any ... Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I'm finally awake enough

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  fine pieces mix it in a big pot beat two or three eggs and add that ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with ... to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... is called "Sponge Talk"). I still think it looks more like a giant iron ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... remember that it will be published on a blog. Vignettes and short stories

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... Brookline, MA on April 3rd for a book signing. I’m pretty bummed that I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... many students will receive a letter informing them that they will not get ... At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  debated is that recent changes in amphibian habitat, from climate change to ... , the probability of its extinction in present circumstances is low. A ... a larger scale, proposed in a 2011 study published in Nature, is to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that ... the way my friends and I speak (MIT AFFIRM my speech is INTELLIGIBLE ... AFFIRM filming and editing a room tour is TRIVIAL). Anoushka did a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  in an application this year. I'm very grateful that you shared your ... CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused ... , who is on language number 5, best friends with a milk frother, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  the Alhambra in Granada. Basically I watched this guy make a landscape ... painting of Praça do Comércio in Lisbon. I lost my gouache kit in the baggage ... readers that I did actually get my luggage back, about a week after I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026