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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  . Dessert! This entry peters off a bit here, because we didn't do anything ... to do with the foody name of the place). I took a whole bunch of ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct--a komodo dragon could have an immaculate conception, assuming that it had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of ... called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Stealing a page from Melis's book, check out this awesome article about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... cycling equipment. (Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene) Mark Cote, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• 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…

  

  slightest idea of what to do with my life. I'd hardly have a chance to try ... committee has been doing this a long time. Even those that have only been doing it for a year have read hundreds of applications. They've seen and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  America and other lives that are not my own; they also have a lot to do with ... -graduation plans. I suspect I'll be doing a lot of exploring this year, and I can ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do ... 's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  book, followed by an in-depth review by a professor. And I do mean in ... experience, as opposed to some grand lecturing, but I do wanna say a few things ... For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  sleep, eating many yummy things, and completed a 3000 piece puzzle. (sadly ... one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more ... dot Oakland Chinatown. After work, it's MCAT class for 3 times a week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... , some background. A scaffold protein, as the name suggests, is a protein whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  people realized I could draw, but I’ve started doing a lot of art since ... -ified"]Mitch’s[/annotation] eyebrows seemed to do some weird acrobatics for a good two minutes after ... *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I ... ; Step 1 - CHECK-IN EARLY Before you can do anything else with this guide ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  outside of that doing some additional studying. I could expect to start a ... wrapping himself under a snug blanket. “It’s late…you’ll do fine.” “Soon…” I ... later,” I told him. “Still have a few things to do.” I was about to start

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... entry by saying that I don’t normally do this much networking or eat this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at/do ... an undergrad degree, doing something technical and high paying in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different ... Taylor Swift, a lot of Taylor Swift Avril Lavigne Justin Bieber One ... reality who the fuck cares what music i like?? I also have a very strong

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021