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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... objects from Koch's many collections -- from ancient Roman to contemporary

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  how it ties everything together. This is a school that pushes you to ... This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... assignments and grades and class materials, similar to schoology

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  this time, I had already been here for two months. I knew how to navigate ... kidding! I still called my mom whenever I was sick. I still talked to my ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  -off things like "How much do you know about Canada?" and "Lockpicking 101" to ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome ... . Now I'm off to pset, because despite how exciting I am about my various

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to ... stuck and have no clue how to begin (like me). I’m constantly ... how to use the Hobby Shop’s water jet by creating something for

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  time to understand how they function. Her research seems like a mix of ... among "Outstanding Faculty" in the Business Week Guide to the Best ... -foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  . They literally used to follow me around asking me odd questions. "How do ... trying to finish high school a year early?" "How do you do it?" "Are you ... parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... ’t think I had earned it. I mean, how could I have? According to all previous ... relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... researcher, I found myself pleasantly surprised with how well she was able to ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  , and learn how to yo-yo. Kylee Kylee is a Course 8 and a UROP in the ... (hi!!! that's here!! that is this) and hopes to learn how to cook for ... everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  fundamentally different approaches to how ingredients should be treated, but in ... somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  realized how important having readable code was when I needed to build upon ... at all. Looking back, I guess it’s pretty amazing how we managed to go ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that ... I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were ... ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  department to sign on Tuesday, then on Wednesday they emailed out about how ... MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  which finding and committing yourself to work you love is like romantic ... lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017