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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... at MIT will you find a food truck parked in the alley behind MIT ... pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... did find a greater sense of community within course 2 than I had in ... might call a “lifestyle class.” I’d sleep earlier in order to wake up

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  started journaling again in earnest – yet. I used to journal a lot, writing ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... have yet to write a more in-depth post about my experience."]traveling to ... 't easily captured in a photo or a resume. So, I'm going to try my best to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  example, a father and daughter drove from rural Idaho to see my meeting in ... Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a

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

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... 't enjoy the content; I am nervous to start biology research in case I find ... doing in college today. I used to picture myself only focusing on science

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  menu (or at least a food item to be used in the dinner), and people sign ... dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  . Miso Ramen Soup It's really hard for me to find ramen that doesn't use a ... really good and I was very happy to find a vegan ramen option. Chilli ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... into a sprint, run from the student center with your lunch in hand to ... an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to ... using minimal pairs, we can count the number of consonants and vowels in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  cut a few pieces of plywood, which involved the use of a circular saw in ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... afterwards we all got a chance to meet President Hockfield. (By the way, the T

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... " - Apparently my professor has an aversion to technology and just didn't find a ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  reasons for looking into a new field. Use every opportunity to show off ... ... you'll have a ball. Use the interview as an opportunity to learn more ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  to see beyond his local bay, his glorious ship in reality just a small ... in the Mahabharata (quoting my last post): Dronacharya gave a test to ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  codebase somewhere in the office if I want to ask a question about a method ... , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... actually going to get them to go near the speed of light? We can use a ... detector connected to a multi-channel analyzer, where we can use a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  a practicing Buddhist, and after meditations I try to use my clear ... varied it is, I do find myself drawn to the micro theory side. In ... no costs in using your credit card to buy that Arizona tea, why that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018