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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• 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 / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  , one of the dance groups at MIT! Very nice! [if you are reading this ... A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• 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
• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... students who lost power for 24 hours or more). The new deadline for those students is November 6th, 2011, at 11:59 PM. For all other students, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... bluntness of the music. It didn't feel underproduced or lacking at all; it ... . The guy I was dating at this time listened to a lot of Soundcloud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  -strength and super-density at the cost of having his skin and "all his internal ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , is to take a picture of my keys when I move out. Or at least, when I ... scissors. Ten. I was never a fan of new year's resolutions. January just ... new city, away from many of my friends from high school, and I just got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... any of these at MIT, unfortunately)[/caption] Oscilloscopes are ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the ... feeling of walking along the river and smiling at a passing Labradoodle then ... wonderful. At one point we were discussing the prospect of grad school. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  latest happenings at school and mine about the novelty of the US, and video ... ?  All of this plays into my friendship experience at MIT as follows~ I ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at ... way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... not born on my birthday. :-( He was born at 10:40PM on 1/11/06, weighing

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire ... beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012