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• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the ... you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make ... mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos ... in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The ... money from writing. Then more offers came in. And then I had decisions to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an ... shelves are bare and books lie in stacks on the table. I keep to the outside

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which we place various ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  train to arrive, and the trip itself is around ten minutes. I get off in ... try to be speedy in my getting ready. We still leave too late to be on ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  -smelling jobs we'd ever had. Have you ever been to a mushroom barn, like in ... possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get to learn how to draw! I have a lot of artsy people in my family, my ... different tools in the machine shop, we get to create our own Stirling Engine ... and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  sour cream added to them and we really like the flavor of earl gray tea ... pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  beginning of my foray into cooking. I learned how to make my mom's chili (and ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a ... exist in east Cambridge. My vegetarianism will probably end when I get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020