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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... went to the Air and Space Museum in DC when I lived in Virginia with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... under trees and getting hit in the face by leaves, or maybe you like ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  the only place where it's socially acceptable for me to get food in my ... from MIT's campus (we had to take two separate MBTA lines to get there ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... some official record if i got covid and wanted to get paxlovid." when i ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... art; it was more me struggling to learn how to use 3D modeling programs

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... deserved an interview I went outside to get a better view and perhaps

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9 ... the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022