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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  . Over the summer I read everything I could get my hands on about fat and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  both great for finding UROP/MEng advisors as well as getting your name

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  , magic happened: Poor Professor Minicozzi didn’t even get to finish the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  students to have fun at. And it gets bigger and better with each year. 2013

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  I was getting ready to attend my own Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Anna Teytelman, whose UROP was on Japanese hip-hop; she ended up getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during the semester, like staying up all night because spontaneous.   After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... -Vehicle Lab. Between labs (getting around MIT involves a lot of walking) Dan and I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . That’s part of why you were able to get this precious meeting time. So ... Portfolio Review. Asked about the what?! The response is that if we get asked ... we get tough but informed questions, that’s a reason to celebrate. At

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  , then it's time for break!) and you get the Christmas playlist I decided

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT ... we get from dormitories, and while it is in no way essential, you get ... fun people. It had been enough to spend all that time there, and get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  talk about that right now (read: I will not get sentimental about that ... construction: "I didn't get it." (To be fair, he started watching after we had ... 's an original script. I like that it gets you to think about what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013