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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  wanted was to learn how to cook in a professional kitchen. Long story ... and work later in the fall when my schedule frees up a bit. While I ... tournament T-shirts is marginal), have cut my hair shorter than it’s been in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  'll step off the soapbox in a minute. But really- your application is a ... blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... few of them have a "flexible option," which is often denoted by an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  harvard square. i'd say they're both far walks. the santouka in boston is a ... conservative, simple choice is usually better. the central ramen (shoyu) is a good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  Notion calendar to track how much I work in both Python and Fusion360 over ... helped me remember how much I liked writing—in 2024, I'm simply hoping to ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  . Sometimes, we are very rigid in our ways. Consider how we pronounce class ... .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... duration of CPW, each pre-frosh is paired with a volunteer student host, who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is ... has a South African accent and how Professor Amon was so pregnant during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  give you an idea of how much pain this is, Next House makes shirts saying ... teacher is speaking in French. Only phrase known in French is "Je suis un ... ". 12:23 PM: Group digresses to discuss whether a third nipple is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... , a undergraduate organization that shows second-run movies in stereo ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... said, I thought a lot of this information is/was/would have been useful ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  with. A less-trafficked study cartel in a lesser-known library is ... . It's a time to show how much and how effectively you've prepared and ... Cornwell "I've never studied this much //21" by Jusuf "How to Make a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... standing in front of a few dozen professional astronomers (+ Carl and his ... a snack, but otherwise pretty much drove straight through Baltimore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  usually take to do a Ph.D. program? Like how long is your Harvard one? It ... average in most of the programs is around five and a half years, but there ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross ... the recipe is in the dipping sauce. We didn't put as much jalapeño and ... 's pretty magical about this dish is seeing how quickly so much liquid gets

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . How much fun would a roller coaster be if it didn't scare you? Each and ... 't know how it happens, but everything seems to work out in the end. MIT is ... see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  experience, a journey cut too short, it's tragedy is it's beauty; and in the ... reflection shows just how much you've grown in your brief time together. "No ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... (shown concurrently on our television with a giant strawberry dropping in Harrisburg and a white rose dropping in York), we played two party games that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on ...   you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... 're in your head a lot. you make decisions only after considering all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023