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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... organizes a mass shopping trip for over $100 of food the Friday before the ... Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  from a bustling city, or a fast-walking family. But for me, that ticking ... attendance for a student receiving financial aid is about $10,000). But still ... ’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  friends with, said that he “had a thing for Asians.” When I ignored him, he ... Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... -home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851: Satellite

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  a description elsewhere: The Emoji Compass is an alethiometer for the ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  newly renovated Rainbow Lounge for yummy food, a Queer Treasure Chest ... Thanks Yuliya for hosting this blog! I’m not out off-campus, so I ... yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one-semester class) and runs for half a semester. i'm especially looking forward to 14 ... perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at ... -inventor-engineer who became a voice for the disenfranchised and an advocate for social

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  is depicted as an alien Stereo recording techniques Arranging for a ... (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  for a year (I did ballroom with the Cambridge team though!) Anyway ... my greatest passions, so I am gonna need a separate post for this but ... practices and MCAT. No kidding. I sleep like a baby every night cuz I am so

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  CK '10 with a welcome ceremony for all our campers, in which counselors performed short skits. As a counselor for the Egyptians team, I posed Egyptian ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  and ready for a tough summer of hard (but enjoyable) work. I start ... fewer angry passengers, but a slight delay. All things considered, though, it was a pleasant experience, littered with naps and tasty food. The

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves feel better about their failed relationship, and the party turns out a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch ... design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  an advertisement for a World-Cup-sponsoring phone company who has ... this up into two entries. Twenty pictures is a little two much even for ... Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  . all of this is good for the boy from story who was put in water as a ... will tell you about it today a few months ago i had a problem. the problem was about the boy from story who was put in water as a baby: the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  a nearby cafe. I overheard her explaining the idea she had for ... my talk. Okay, we were getting somewhere. This was a crazy week for ... actually needed to have a talk for the event to start off well! She grabbed

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become ... MIT's guidelines to interviewers, telling them to look for a good match ... standardized tests like the SAT optional for applicants. A growing number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  & Dorm Life This is....a touchy subject. For a lot of reasons! And I ... for where I lived. They'd assume that I'd be a little quirky or off or ... situation. So I'll sit here and ponder for a bit. I think it's also important

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021