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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... was in an operable state. These are problems we never have to deal with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  with turkey or chicken. Another alteration we made to the recipe is the pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  precipitous drop in drive or ambition, I mean relative to high school and to ... 'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... better than hot, and it’s fun to put together outfits with layers or

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... . Send email out to dorm: My dear countrymen, in light of the recent ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  (or 80s, memory fails me...) MIT-Japan was started as an organization to provide support to students who wanted to study or work abroad in Japan ... to start MIT-fill-in-country-here." Then, sometime in 1994, someone had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got ... clearly had to share it with everyone we knew, or to preserve that one crazy

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any ... .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  't able to have Mocha Show in 2021, however, so i was intent on contributing to the show as much as i could this time around. Ideating in the first ... practice (in red). as you can see, there's a lot of running from studio to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  community was quite closeknit in many aspects. I was just so glad to see that ... student'. Sad to leave but eager to come back to Boston in the fall! And ... had come to MIT CPW with excitement but also deeply rooted stereotypes

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... needed to. But do I want to drop things in the first place? Do I really ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to ... , Professor Modell, and Morgan, a postdoc in my lab, had all headed over to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  five cookies in one sitting will most likely lead to a tummy ache ... one designated class before deciding to either keep that grade, or ... fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  're welcome to enter our Early Action or Regular Action cycle. We'll send an email in early December outlining the options available: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early Action. You may use
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  bump in the road your wheels shift and you begin swerving to the left or ... to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8 ... material in class. To further put that in perspective, I typically wasn't the ... whenever I had too much else to do that night, or if I simply wasn't feeling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another ... HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever since. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to participate in it this year because

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least ... items in the cart which you might say was a premonition or a prophecy of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the ... the bravest people I know, but even so, it’s hard not to see the fear in ... in February, she’s struggled to stomach the idea of leaving home

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... British landscape (no offense New Jersey). I was matched to a few schools in ... nontrivial to me because i grew up in drought stricken California, where all

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023