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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school ... at a complex position; and true legends of instant diagnoses are common

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  minutes later, I arrived at Kendall Square. This is the location of the ... get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts ... an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... upperclassmen or your favorite blogger, as long as they're both me). But of all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... some buttery version of shortbread. Oh well. Last day at work-- Abu ... halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  explanation of what a puzzlehunt is, so you can look at that. But the tl;dr is ... proposal, each person could only be the author of at most one proposal ... proposals would be cut to a shortlist of at most five proposals by approval

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the ... Society, one of my friends during his semester at MIT was coached in a ... kazoo or pan pipes or oboe of love, there's probably an ensemble at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  thrown on us at Blue Man Group Thursday: - a tour of IPI pharmaceuticals ... So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool ... repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  , MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin ... at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  is all just a lie. it’s pointing at all of my other friends that it ... , and singing i’ve talked about fun at length before. one of the common ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  can still be an act of love. Figure 6. Serving food at the Night ... at MIT for the opportunity to help! At the time of this writing, the ... beets at 375oF for 1hr and leave them out to cool Peel and cut, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... ) is "life is short." His phone is currently at 1% battery, but it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce ... give a preview of my four years at MIT in the artistic form of my ... So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005