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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism ... to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  with any survey, some people are way more receptive than others at ... ; Free Buds” [Q: What education level have you achieved?] “I read a ... around to it before I leave. The local dishes here are interesting. The

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  all ready to write an entry last night on how some cities in Germany are ... unknown city of Stuttgart with complete and utter confidence. Free machines ... arriving there was no problem. Once there, we used a handy city map and made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this ... you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  front of the other, arms pumping. There are endorphins running through ... note="for those like me, who are not marathon runners, or runners at all ... metaphorical arms are sore from pumping, you feel the endorphins coursing through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  an internship, where to move, where to work, wherever—that there are no ... reminds me of college admissions back in the philippines, where each ... -to-place. sometimes it consists of a phone screen, where you talk to a recruiter about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line ... , approximately 20% of the inhabitants are wearing some kind of Boston sports team gear. 3. At lunch time, like half the people here are wearing suits and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  whatnot. Nonetheless, what are the odds? Case in point number 2: I was ... side of the building and made it to the room before he did, undetected ... : It's the week before Thanksgiving, and my roses are still blooming

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... . the muscle groups involved in pushing are naturally stronger than the ... problems, if i choose this hobby i’ll spend my free time on these activities

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are ... , which is where most of my hours from firehose come from. What’s great ... transition time before you are fully able to focus on the task at hand. So, to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  , sort and sorted are confused, and a plethora of other mistakes are made ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are arriving. People are excited. My second and last class that day was 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at ... are the most powerful incentives, are what makes life worth living. also, what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... balloons, and Voltage Coffee's owner, Lucy, who made me a ridiculously ... "refocus" pictures after they are taken -- or rather, I guess, to generate 2D

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  where the anger comes back because it was you that made me like this, that ... . there are blatant ones -- photos of us, well. what would have been us had ... have now are like night and day in comparison to the past. they know how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Khan (founder of Khan Academy) made at the 2012 Commencement where he ... -person interviews. This happens in NYC or Boston, where apparently alums fight over ... admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  some-years-past Rachel are an unintentional time capsule fired naively ... as a magical rainbow wonderland where all dreams come true, which as I ... started writing this post, I wrangled Elasticsearch at work and made dinner

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self ... and I have enjoyed over the years are as follows: Chicken tenders

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  Necklines are just what they sound like, and are the first skill we were ... make him into a bird-type thing.. It would have made more sense if I ... paperweight!!!  This is probably my favorite thing I made in the class. To

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ignition taught me something new. For my 2.651 D-Lab Energy class, we made ... until reaching a “blow-out” point—where wind no longer aided spread but ... —people who are just as eager to teach fire techniques as they are to learn them

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025