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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... using for a novel I outlined but probably won’t write, Small Gods. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... . Well, I am also an MIT student! (Trust me, I have beaver fever.) Hi! I am Linh, a junior majoring in Biology (Course 7) and I am currently

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  them on nights when I'm feeling it. Pineapple in a can: good for baking and for pineapple fried rice! I used to have a ton of cans around ... card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... in. Where am I, anyways? Second excuse: I started working for ... rfong style, I celebrated by buying a 14oz teapot. Just kidding. In even

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to ... most ⅓ of the retail price — i.e. if you pay $4 for a TGTG meal, the food ... for buying surplus food that’s been left out for a bit.  Yi Fang Fruit

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... for many students. I have a personal expectation for myself which drives

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  was fortunate to have a platform where I could candidly share those ups ... money for travel and then stay at hostels with friends. I made it a point ... were graduating and staying in the area. I've now been away from MIT for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  ."]MISTI[/annotation] internship, I participated in Vardavar, a festival where everybody–men and ... . Thankfully, after a panicked email, I received money from MIT-Eurasia to fix ... ) could finally take a turn for the better. “My phone’s broken,” I said to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  's dining hall and paying $10 for a three-course dinner. I love lists. 1 ... Cafe. For 75 cents you get as much brown rice as you can fit on a plate ... Friday morning, which featured a stunning international menu. I had this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  that for a future blog post."]Very cool stuff,[/annotation] but I digress ... ="768"] Absorbance FTIR spectra that I measured for the scarf (top) and a ... of silk! For good measure, I also collected an FTIR spectrum of a 100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... aforementioned cancellation of my Friday night plans, I set out at 11 PM for a 10 ... except for the teams. So, I planned a 17-hour trip to Switzerland to see a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  can reassign him to a dorm host. I chose to live in Baker House (a dorm ... cpw is dependent upon whether I can get assistance for transportation ... there really is a problem, I can still go and change my own registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... wearing a long sleeve shirt. Here, I hope there will be days where a long ... spelled “nightmere”). Luckily, I have a bike (thrifty me bought it for $45

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  at it then was “A free trip to Russia? Heck, yeah. I can totally skip ... within it, in the hopes that I can one day make a difference in it, and ... So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  . Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... for a workshop hosted by the Urban Metabolism Group, within which I have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  honestly, I'm starting to question. i'm about a week away from accusing ... a day. That was us. And then…one day…it wasn’t… Everyone went from ... " anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  undergraduate can get a meal plan regardless of where they live. The final section ... included), I took a small dessert, bagel, or fruit from the dining hall and ... all-you-can-eat for every meal; how large is a one-meal kit? Is it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017