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• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  always been a special part of Chemim’s life, and if she had to choose a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it’s been almost five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box where it lives in…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month,…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  pink in real life.[/caption] The “S” in the subject number means that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn’t cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here: https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3 I had a very difficult time…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the 1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been around since then, and despite many…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower. If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these equations: x = cos(t) + 3/4 cos(-3t)…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard that resonated with many readers. Several people have mentioned similar experiences at their own universities—student populations filled with clout-chasers, dispassionate…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey, I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  This winter break, inspired by a chaotic night hiking trip in fall,⁠58 Josephine ‘24 and I led our group through the mist after nightfall, ekeing out spray-painted trail signs with…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  fundamental questions of life. It's slow, meditative, and so, so warm.  

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  things I did:  quogs in a ‘metastable state’ spent more time with my wing  at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and each wing has multiple lounges,…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let’s back up a…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  heart lay with the study of life, and then I decided to become a computer

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  even be living it, to feel life feel lighter and more full for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri.) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022