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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure ... human dimensions of memorial responses has given me a way to think, now

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular ... about themselves. I want to tell myself that maybe some of them are in a ... move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  pictures of home

  

      a concert / jazz and reggae / late night conversations / pizza / checking checklists / days so warm and restless and impatient / writing and finding poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this ... surface curves in 3D space at a given point on the surface. Each direction

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  photo album and my mom ordered a small wooden box to put her ashes in. the ... mom along. she got to spent a few days with my entire host family, which ... me in 2017 and Nisha had given her a MIT tour, they were all very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  's nothing quite like being inside a tent and listening to the rain try in vain ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... (ex: Fires caused by lithium ion batteries in landfills)? It goes to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  places to try food. Eastern Edge is a new food hall located right in the ... off just getting a [annotation note="brown sugar cardamom latte to be ... tea available and I was determined to have something. Yet, in the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily ... 's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... PGA." Well apparently that's exactly what President Obama had in mind

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... also essential. In this post, I’d like to talk to you about one lifestyle ... protein? I get that, but hear me out. In order to avoid devastating climate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always ... in his Facebook profile that led me to believe something big was going

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  ] An MIT researcher has developed a technique to deblur shaky camera photos. Say hello to the newest blogger, Jessica Kim '10 (a.k.a. JKim, or ... before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... : November 3, 2004, entitled "(Q & A)^n" First Omnibus with "Omnibus" in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  and April. So, basically applying to MIT has been like a kick in the ... , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011