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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  him, no "Wayne Corp. makes my stuff, I just buy it", Tony Stark designs ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT ... Gregor. And then February: McCormick. March: But what about Next?? In fact, I ... . In my efforts to research every single dorm possible, I ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  , why can't I?). Also that night, I found my bike... parked in the exact ... icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... whenever it can be fit in, so the spring and fall classes are equally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... blog about, so here I am. But switching website designs also means

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats ... , And the warm glow of waning summer sun, I feel like I could sit in this

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

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , dance performances, and more. Shikhar asked, "Can I send in softwares ... well too). Is the recommendation process set in stone, or can I use his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... our office might visit 50 or so of them in a year. I know from talking ... cities, as I've previously discussed. Our priority in these cities is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science ... flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... , and learn from that. I’m here to learn about other people and in the ... fundamentally changed in some way as a person. The only way this can happen is by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a ... /wk. dining plan) thought it was crazy that I was considering living in a dorm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... I was doing at the exact time it happened?" I can't say I'm happy with the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... . I hope many of you will check out a production in your town this year ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  , very different from buildings you see elsewhere. That's more than I can ... canoeing. See, creatures really can live in the Charles. See, people at MIT ... entirely man-made. I had originally called this entry "Dirty old river, must

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  department in a nutshell[/caption] “But Andi!” I hear you cry, “How could you read sheet music off your tiny loaner iPad?” That’s where Fred comes in ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022