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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... cards. I made sure to write down what I added to the cards I customized, and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  asking me if I curl my hair, people asking me how I curl my hair, people ... don't say what I am wondering, because I know that would be too much, wouldn't be funny, would be Making A Big Deal Out Of It. But what I am

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ”, Urban Studies and Planning --I know someone that would respond “Majoring ... wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... ’t that a prerequisite for most careers? I also thought that MechE would

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , since I told him that I would be up late. We staggered around packing my ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I ... to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for ... ," which I have never seen, or that episode of "Seinfeld," which I have seen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested ... aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  possible to really be too honest? How far should I really go into expressing ... few cases (oh how I wish I could share the details here, but I'd get ... . I heard them DHL people saying that the stuff would easily make it to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  over whenever I thought about where I would film. What counts as ... subjective, defined to each person, but I didn’t know what would fit ... Camera and started to film the surroundings. Soothing, I would describe it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  .']our Area Director.[/annotation] It would be fine, right? I had done the math ... I figured that everything would work itself out. This was not to be ... my graduation, until after Drop Date; my advisor and I would end up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... when I buy alcohol anymore. I mean, I'm guessing that I wouldn ... ...but I really would like to blog about it when it comes out for real on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... security craziness and what would inevitably be a very emotionally difficult

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... ... this seems to be supported by how they just don't let him melt. I ... would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... going to buy some at a drug store, but I hear those are quite expensive ... analyze for my UROP at home and I also need to buy a train ticket for 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now ... is very little I can say here. To understand just how severe the ... , and probably figured, “Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  freedom to make their part of the program their own. I'm not sure how other ... original proposal. I won't go into this too much, but I think this shows how ... needed decisions: how answers would be called in, the hint system, and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  , especially when it could be used to buy free food for the floor, so I was kind ... If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going ... inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  honest - I didn’t really buy it. I already had friends back home who have ... asking for help. I learned how to stop letting imposter syndrome take the ... extrovert.  I never expected to find people who would understand me so

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV ... liked getting A's. I was also known as someone who would help anybody with ... know I got myself into this, and there's nothing I would give up -- but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006