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• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... I saw her in “Desk Set;” she was witty, she was smart, she was strong ... family-friendly, I’ll just say the surgeon general would NOT approve. I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about ... minute ago in this entry, I'm actaully from New Jersey. And what is it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... ? The answer, simply put, is no. However, I do say this in retrospect. I ... ? I think not. So here's my challenge for all of you who got in: 1

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn's "official" biography from rhodesscholar.org (links mine): Jennifer I. Lai ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining ... . Now with most things at MIT, I would suggest anyone to just check out ... a period of little sleep. I've slept maybe 20 hours in the past 5 days

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... , I prepared to fly back to Taiwan with an extended layover in San

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... ? When am I supposed to sleep? Will I be able to withstand falling in love

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I ... entirely in the right frame of mind, if the phone rang and I was more than an

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  would get drier as the leftovers spent more time in the fridge. This ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin ... vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  during lecture. I'm taking three technicals this semester, and if there's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... ="111203" image3="111200" image4="111201" image5="111202" /] I do enjoy this class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  literary feet through a dry analysis and I figured you all would appreciate ... adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... ’m in love with her based on what I’ve gathered from her physical

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... question about the centrifugal force–wait, a trick. I knew this. I buzzed in ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities or test-prep courses I would suggest or anything like that. I recommend ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  ; in a sad justification of his self-imposed theme. And you would be ... take it all in, and I think that’s what MIT looks like overall. If you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  with a healthy helping of pasta, a sadly bimodal fruit salad (in which I ... I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... game in the ALCS, I was on Burton Third starting to plan out our 6 ... I'm not a big sports fan. Never have been. Nashville doesn't have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005