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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage ... them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... the current or former bloggers have lived in ILGs, they haven't really been discussed in much detail. Sondy's post changes that, though. Read

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in ... -baked hell, but i did make tea. in fact, i brewed myself at least four liters

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was ... in an actual YouTube educational video, as a host. Here a preview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do ... party animals) are spent in these rooms, while I use all my other

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... , my fellow interns, and the other astronomers in the building. At the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the ... Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... beating a dead horse is betting on one, so why keep putting your hope in ... of this rut of overthinking and spinning a wheel in place and actually

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  sister is a student at Northeastern University in Boston. When I moved to ... is so different from the version of me that last posted back in ... more energy. In general, you are a happier person.” My mom agreed, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... individual panes of glass — arranged in a meticulous rectangular grid. each

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a ... . [annotation note="some people in Radio Society are probably immortal"]Back in ye olde

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... world, and people sent in truly wonderful digital artifacts, so i

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023