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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  across the United States. It was the first post-secondary institution to ... Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there's not opportunities to ... simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  blog came to me first as a tweet, where I wrote this: man once you start ... , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... drawback that now there is nothing more appealing to me than the kitchenware

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  't "real" adult enough to get the pitch on energy conservation (I was first ... To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  extremely boring first chapter and a lot of references to Swedish things that ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... Snively was the first one I remembered because his name is funny. This past ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to ... I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  ? I wondered to myself. I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like it. Of course ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was. It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... child to the pika alumni trust fund and spending one fine weekend in early

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... disillusionment, even after you pack your suitcases to the acceptable airline limit and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  't have to awkwardly explain to my supervisor that i missed my first day ... airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... your jeans to thread the bandana through. you're killed if your hunter

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to ... Another Questions Omnibus... as always, I wish I had more time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  during the colder months. This is also one of the first dishes I tried to ... , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020