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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in ... you are for whatever reason someday required to secretly make them and ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... scientific poster labels and official conference badges for him to sign. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it ... ...but I really would like to blog about it when it comes out for real on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before ... , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  !) CMS.300 - Intro to Videogame Theory; Excited for this class mainly ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the ... to Nashville for the flight), where he was living (Simmons, the same as ... about 1,000 degrees, which I would have to deal with for the next month or

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  and I are going to teach a class on behavioral economics for HSSP, and ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , so we headed down intending to take over their fire and chill for a bit ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... from Ramya '14! You might think that CPW stands for Campus Preview ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , I still wanted to be able to take a break and do some things for fun ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... . At some dorms it's even normal for freshmen to have singles (most ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  going to “waste” it. Yes, it fortunately ended up working out well for me ... slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... a good thing or a bad thing, but I’m going to count this as a win for ... would be too old to be gallivanting through the streets and asking for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask ... ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... my jacket not long after, for it began to rain. And rain. And rain. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... just a fancy word for "direction." Another way to understand this "linear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  what my motivations were for joining the lab, what I hoped to gain, and ... explains, SoWa stands for South of Washington, referring to Washington Avenue ... smile to my face, doing things that make me happy, and feeling excited for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for ... ?" and "are there any Citizen Science programs to help look for pulsars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  ...she has been an opera fangirl for many years now, and is excited to be ... museum box for people to gawk at. After the Stravinsky piece, Joshua Bell ... , we'd like to play one more piece for you," and everyone applauded until

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes ... ’s not much for me to say about these things; not enough, at least.   i ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019