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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  route divides into three affording a huge number of options for teams to ... deserts we all reconvene in Samarkand on the ancient silk route, where a ... Mountains of Kyrgyzstan and into Kazakhstan for a dash north to the Russian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... and chicken with rice. Defrosting meat is a thing that you have to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... in them. This course will expose you to a range of questions regarding

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... ," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  throwing a blog entry opening party, where you can get you picture taken with Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... encourages people to interact with others' snowflakes, which I find neat. There ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... fact that you applied to these great schools says a lot about your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a ... roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and ... would’ve been looking at a surgery that would leave me unable to put

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  engineers to meet their architect comrades). While some of the concepts are a ... our first such project. We had to building a balsa wood column 12 ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  , where people could have a place to unleash their destructive creativity ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... .178 Introduction to Java, I’d built a full-fledged* battleship game!** *semi

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again ... tonight, Trump decided to pick Randal to be The Apprentice over Rebecca, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  precious time we spend after classes together twice a week to sing, setting ... take a nap. i think i'm exhausted: i think i need a week to turn off my ... , or guitar hero, or going to yamato's, or going to ihop after a formal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  't really need it per say, but since I want to go into journalism, a writing ... self - aka we're going to be writing a memoir! The professor is Sherry ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to ... works with where I'm at. There will always be a point at which no matter

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  mailing list culture I really appreciate that I work at a place where ... Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... are still more than a Chipotle burrito ($7.50 after tax at Kendall). To ... a lot weight to this argument: MIT students are perpetually busy and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011