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• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I ... supreme. This, of course, is the primary reason, and everything else is ... combination of spices. But when I went off to college and tried to make the same

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... instead of actual engineering, or if maybe I choose the wrong major after ... the rest of my life. Luckily, I've found that Adelaide '09, despite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... growing up, but not one of them had ever been beautiful. Like the Aesop ... advancement of women, but not the advancement of femininity, and I would later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  less. So the classes happen over a shorter time frame. The scheduling of ... days of the week, for the whole month, like normal classes. One example ... the end of IAP. Instructors. There’s a lot of variety among people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... off bags, then went right to the venue for an afternoon of sailing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the ... . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds of people in cities around the Northeast. Joey faced a tough choice in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... gather up hundreds of low-income, high-achieving students from all over the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... , the future of cars, and Bill Gates at once, even if it means I just have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this country, especially Really Good Ones, where the president of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... require.” For ease of transportation, Bed, Bath & Beyond will pack the ... shorts are your friends. And wait till you discover the wonders of free t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  , there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me ... : weekly schedule The first page of my calendar is devoted to my recurring

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025