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• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes ... measured like four cups of rice, filled it water up to the line that said "4 ... it take? Thirty minutes, max, and most of it was waiting for the rice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my ... while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... focus on physics tonight. 6:15 — Dinner begins with the ringing of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... to take their class through an [annotation note="the anxiety of writing ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... of the people there. Mostly my fellow physics majors. Because math

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished ... prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... “Aether” from now on because saying “one of the twins” or “traveler” (as he’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  aches. My legs were so sore that I didn't get out of bed for the rest of ... . During my third nap of the day, at 6 pm, I was jerked out of half ... aches were gone, which clued me into the potential of them having stemmed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on ... friends. Go me!"]and[/annotation] all I can do is take the path of least ... play, because you get to know the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the person

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  spoiling extra groceries. Then the last week of the month would roll around ... my initial estimate, with the second column the actual total of that ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... EA Admits: Hopefully, you got Dave's email about the admitted student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  engineering - I like the idea of making things. I like making things that will ... doing for the rest of my life. And in some aspects: yes. I do. Raymond ... of the goal and not get lost in the sauce of everything. Sometimes I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only lasted so long. The calm before the storm you might say. My second round of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... library was quiet, and “read every book in the library” was the kind of ... glaringly obvious moments of crustacean-brain, and then there were the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... A kills B, then B is out of the game and A now hunts C. this brings ... Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  had enough of the structure of the class and ditched it. That's ok ... 've never done proof-based math before, plus all of the open and closed sets ... . To go back to the angeriest, reddest of bois KC, the reason I thought

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... language. How else are you ever going to contribute to the conversation of ... the most out of your final months as a senior. Have a wonderful rest

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  Reading applications from students born after the fall of the Berlin ... approximate the motor, visual, flexibility, dexterity and strength of a person ... it isn't any fun. My bones creak and ache and I can tell when the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011