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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... seems to have taken a rather enthusiastic interest in mentoring the course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  . If we finish 9 of these races in one year, we get to run the NYC ... the gifted sprinters, and us "amateur hobbyists" were less likely to get ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  ? Parfaits. So, I hope that you have been using the blogs to get an accurate ... four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a MOSFET in a first order circuit. When I got home, I still had to start

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  poster) 4.140 OR 2.008, not both — 4.140 is harder to get in to, harder ... get in to the Diaz class, and drop Sustainable Energy or whatever else ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  came to my hometown, but just happened to be in Boston during one of my ... call two places home and I have many different people to call when I get ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  ;)[/caption] We're still in Q-week, which means we're supposed to stay inside ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... keeping the heat in. Next was to make the crust dough and freeze it so we ... people steal gas). It kinda worked. We mostly used strainers to get the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... )lucky as the delegates in this year's UNSC committee, you also had to stay ... Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls ... TechCash", Campusfood.com allows us to order food online and (in many

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the ... to 20 people, and they each worked on different projects. I was in the ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... people who are taking more classes than this, and still find time to be in ... small handful of stories, and came back to MIT in summer. Everything was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of ... boxes they reside in. I just want to talk about the process of bringing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... - Get Set Go Self Defense Where the Hell is Matt? Pulp Fiction in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... enough in itself to entice me to explore new opportunities, this invitation ... in the MSA. He quickly helped me locate my nametag, invited me to help

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... ”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated ... just means “place” or “residence”. The poet in me still wants to relate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in a two-in-the-morning walk from mit back to warren towers, after a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020