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• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  ’s possible to ‘solo’ something, engaging others is fun and can usually be more ... . Bundy, WhiteFang, Renaissance and Gadget (friends who I met on the Trail ... celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  , before remembering there is studying to be done and cooking can take a lot ... Verde's, the small grocery store on campus, and I go for Anna's. On four hours of ... one of the people on shift with me for money, but I can't pay them back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  are incomplete and shouldn't be on the Internet at this time. And I said ... think I tend to be too bookish and focused on post-graduation plans ... balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  . We then test the gels' mechanical properties and, on occasion, test ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  . We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... Tuesday, beans for lunch and rice for dinner. Sure, the rice on each day ... . ** On a school morning, we went from the bathrooms to the dining hall, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... —for example, the spokes on a bike wheel could be distinguished now, whereas ... found the place on Google Maps and handed it to him. He rotated the phone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  [/caption] Living with chronic illness sucks, and I can’t wait for the new medication ... on the amazingly welcoming Chicago artist and disabled communities. I ... returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Philosophy EDIT: I just realized that the "Majors and Minors" page on the ... .0" you set out the cardinal rule of the process as being "Be Honest" and do ... heard it all- the good, the bad, and the ugly, and they can smell BS about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had ... enough experience to pass on to the freshmen. Now I can shamelessly tell ... hall legends are passed on. --- Incidentally, you can give advice to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  stop wasting time on the internet and get back to writing my paper. I ... blueberry pie for the family's annual gathering, and Adam and I made our ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  classes at Sloan, and you will be seen pedaling furiously down the sidewalk ... pants will be perpetually wet from the wheel spray. You are nice and often ... pedestrians, and casually gun 20+ mph on the bridge – yet somehow you’re still

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  .  Before each performance, the performers and directors would come together and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we ... of the chessboard? He said “Can I kiss you?” and I said “Can you?” and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  On Saturday, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who have won ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... immunology and has worked at the NIST, and at the NIH human genome research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  2007 topic: international focus on gender, ethnicity and trauma ... .405 (Seminar on Politics and Conflicts in the Middle East) Focuses on evolution ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  can. Smudges and really old marker may be left on the board — that’s ok ... whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new ... be a few lingering “smudge” stains that are on the whiteboard; in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  fanart and other original art on my Tumblr page. However, as is the story ... can get your hands on the loaner ones. I’d first heard about this app ... was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the ... puzzles and some negotiations over the size of the one that we would be ... took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  cauliflower sides, but the benefit is that with the crunch and salt, I can kinda ... is lasagna and garlic roasted cherry tomatoes and on the right is rice ... actually a nice place to learn something new on the spot and apply it to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language ... , always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012