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• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• 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 / 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 Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... months I have been secretly training in chess with hopes to beat Aidan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• 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 / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  't worked before, in my case), and talk about logistics like how we get to ... were informed in early March, ten months before we had to move in. We had ... 'd give "assistance" in finding housing. This amounted to linking us to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• 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 / 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 / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... 're teaching THAT to MIDDLE SCHOOLERS?" and "how'd swing dancing go?" and "food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  a 9 pm flight at 7 pm, it was too late. I need to get my eyes checked ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know ... sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many ... post in one blog!**** ****Experiment truncated in order to minimize the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013