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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are ... hackneyed clichés. But on my own terms. College is the best time to try what ... trick is to add the oil very slowly at first, and to add a bit of cold

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... bill is a monthly flat rate, we have the luxury of leaving the fans on ... green line T stop is a mere minute or two away. On sunnier days, a stroll

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on ... know about is biology admissions -- I'm currently asking around to see if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  learned that Kauai is home to the wettest place on Earth, Mt. Waialeale (Wai ... black Jolly Roger sails belong to my boat, which is a 1969 sunfish (yep ... start apparently >_>), which ruined my plan of bragging to my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  of using words to describe my project, here is a video I made! But for ... ! Look at how charming! On one of my last days, I went to explore the ... (which ranges from a lot to A LOOOTT).   I had two other people on my team

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to ... of Feb 5!! Go to our website for more info: alumweb ... graduating), or the Class of 2000's pi Reunion (~3.14 years after graduating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... just which sadist decided to taint the beauty of electricity and ... and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  test to determine which six of the 12 students will be on the U ... importance of having a social support network, which is one of his top ... drive to be accepted at a good college or university made him too hard on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in ... I had been dying to see. I saw Charlie Wilson’s War on Friday ... , as if she had aged 70 years in only a couple of hours. That is great

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... we got taken out to lunch to local restaurants, all 4 of which were new to me and delicious! On the last Monday of the externship, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  look forward to. Next semester I will take Quantum III, which is sort of ... memorized. Then it'll be 2013, which is hard to believe. On January 3, I fly ... : some of us became dependent on those to feel good about ourselves. One

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or ... of ALL of the things that there are to do here. The point is, I guess I ... -based learning is having on students all across the state of MA. (I learned a lot

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  the end of the day my final schedule is much, much better then my ... more abstract 18.100B to the more concrete 18.100A, which has been ... drop some of my classes and almost didn't want to believe them. I wanted

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  , but no amount of planning is immune to the inevitable forces of nature ... way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  watch a lot of TV is highly dependent on whether or not you watched a lot ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the ... culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  , hangtime, and aerobatics. Each contestant is allowed to enter any or all of ... Red Bull staff, but aerobatics is evaluated by a panel of judges on the ... give/teach them to other kids. This is perhaps my earliest memory, or at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  , which is increasingly sounding more and more ideal to me. By the end of ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... , and would get to work on lots of cool projects related to my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  that, i've done a decent amount of website work, which is great ... lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true ... spend that time with their families. or in my case, on campus. what do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced ... saw, that *some* of us were r e a l l y drunk. What all of this means is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020