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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  day. Rock. Also, note the appearance of George Mason University, Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  'm applying the "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth" concept and ... locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  . 9) Rain boots are a way of life. This may apply to the female ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... interspersed with modern buildings like the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  sentiment of this entry still applies. Don't give up hope! People really do ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010