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• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... ’s a timelapse that I recorded last week of me cleaning the 6

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... ’ve seen all week. From the ululating screams of the women followed by fluid ... feelings were often buried under the breakneck pace of classes and piling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  brother of the Zesiger Fitness Center"] Alumni Wang Fitness Center ... of Wang are like the backrooms, and after taking a few turns, you end ... double the amount of PE points (4 points! I’m halfway done). Included among

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  -Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang ... sandwich. A few days later, Jimmy brought me a bag of the nicest corned beef

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have ... structures, where older people 'match' with younger / fresher members of the ... 'famline' structures. hackmit, the club i used to run, had our own set of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  fire by the mouth of the quarry. Some people heated up food and roasted ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the ... chicken coop in the wooded area of our backyard. My parents have always

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... asking for the two letters of recommendation, cause I felt intimidated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn't accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... ), in the middle of last semester (October or November, I believe ... stupidity. Especially if you're distracted by the thought of taking your first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” More often than not, the actual physics causes some form of apocalyptic

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... songs - it flows, and holds together by the use of little musical ideas

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... . If you look at the bottom of the page, where you once saw this: you ... the Like button instead of Share, since it's a simpler and easier to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  mileage may vary. Take advantage of the craft room Ideas! Paint ... -spinning arts shows (some of the bloggers perform in those!) More study breaks ... hell out of those huge rush budgets.  Visit the MIT Museum Explore

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of ... on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... ; And every goodbye since, for both of my parents, has mirrored the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022