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• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  hang out with them all the time, too. It's a shame that I can only be ... next two years, I decided that if I didn't learn a foreign language, I would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  , for giving me a seven-minute "cellcert" of "When Doves Cry" from Clay ... deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely ... -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  Now I have a lot more stories where this comes from... Tuesday, I was walking down the Infinite with my advisor where SAVE (Save A Vital Earth ... advisor: "What was that they were handing out?" Me: "Candy." I had a

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  committed. Yet even then, I had to take a break from the women's ultimate team ... bake me a cookie for every time I work on strengthening my shins. I love ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places ... immature, petty and enjoy a good sexual innuendo or two. as i share these ... all the evils were released, there was hope. i think you'll find a lot

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... ) Classes I’m really enjoying my immunology program. For a taste of the ... will astound you, I guarantee it. For example, the body has evolved a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... existential WHY DID I SIGN UP FOR THIS? crisis, but the class itself was a ... . The Multicolor Universe was a class that I've been wanting to design for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  construction robot I work on for my UROP--more on that later!) attached to a ... . I also (as an add-on project) created a SIMULINK (software for digital ... robot. That’s what I did over IAP! The podcast is from something a long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  where they will be required to 'make' something for a final project or ... , where more than 100 technically creative folks from all over the country ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... day and making a video a year from now showing everything I've done ... have a hard time writing from nothing. If I have even a slightly better

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Walker around 7 for a fun tradition called hockey awards, where the Burton Third seniors present a funny award to each underclassman. For example, I ... traditionally for the Bombers to hang out and talk. I was a bit averse to a live

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... , and the U.S. (idk where I'm from). Dorm: used to be iHouse, which is ... in Chamber Music Society where I play in a string quartet, and I also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  didn't for a few days. That's because I actually got busy with my UROP ... awesome for a prefrosh). Getting there sucked. Taking their advice I ... mountain. That night I spent a couple of minutes being really thankful for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... I often told my college roommate, who was from Adelaide: nice try. As a cosmopolitan, sophisticated friend of the world, I welcome their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... our minds. Sometimes, when I found myself gazing for long enough upon my ... probably took a year off our lives — story for another time?— it gave us time

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  on this dish and others! Appendix I. A recipe for borscht Rationale There are a few places where I’ve added my personal touch to this recipe. I am not a fan of starchy mouthfeel in soups, so this recipe calls for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  person would appreciate a hug from them. and, i don't know. a cynical me ... hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... it's nice having this bit of context i can share with my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... ! The third time’s the charm, I guess. … Make a stem and attach it to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn ... . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2 ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008