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• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall

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

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte ... is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  cappella group, the Asymptones (tagline: "we sing fun and nerdy music!"). We ... lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent research facility on campus that would be known as the Whitehead Institute

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan   What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a ... old storefronts by the main square. We communicated through a plethora

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , authentic, and enjoyable content in the next couple years as bloggers past and ... new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... the time of the program, we weren’t sophomores yet because of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path you move it along is called the distance travelled. The difference

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... the shop.        Irina left a well-attired friendly octopus to guard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  jumped into action. Early in the morning, dorm presidents (like me) received an e-mail from the Undergraduate Association (MIT's student ... tomorrow." The UA and DormCon had pulled together. They were ordering all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate ... different “names” in our respective languages for our numbers…all around the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time been very comfortable behind the wheel, and I relax most when I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010