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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... . It's a day long ordeal, with the actual career fair running from 10am ... Bot, "a drink mixing machine that can build a custom mixed drink with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  (Course VII, '05) and sang with the MIT Logarhythms when he was a student (fun fact: he was also a featured soloist on two early Kidz Bop albums ... his blog profile, is a happy dude, and full of smiles. But he hates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... Gardens where the circus is actually held. Rose ’14, a Simmons resident

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  while enjoying a complimentary meal."), or the Tech's annual "Sex ... currently pursuing a PhD in analytical biochemistry. Here she is on PBS ... : She was your typical biochemistry "whiz kid", who geeked out as a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  will provide them with a well-rounded education. Will they graduate from MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with ... up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  A few weeks back, I ran into my friend Andre '08 on the T (that is ... MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one ... , but I'll leave you with a few thoughts of my migration southward. 1 ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  , Afrojack, and Alesso. A video posted by Erick Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 12, 2017 at 2:23pm PST A video posted by Erick Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 13, 2017 at 10:22pm PST A video posted by Erick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  First some backstory. It's 2008, a leap year and a presidential ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... for. As you can imagine presidential elections generate a lot of buzz

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  that have been submitted. Also, please note that you do not need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... ’d be gone. And I would be sad. Rinse, repeat. About a week ago, that “30

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  been in a drought). Combined, heat and humidity are killer. But when you add in hot and humid rain, well, that’s like putting a kangaroo in the ... well prepared though. A few weeks ago, I found this app called Dark Sky

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  What To Bring To MIT Next Fall? If you're planning on having a bike, make sure to bring a good bike lock. Maybe four. I don't actually know if it's been stolen - I have a tendency to...forget where I leave things. Like my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... ). This represents a great step forward for "green chemistry", reducing ... , a typical sophomore-level Chemistry class. Not only that, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  allowed by the FCC, Turner and the lawyers for both stations found a legal ... playlists... here's a sampling: Marilee Jones Dean of Admissions Wednesday ... a Hound Dog (Elvis) * Candy Man (Roy Orbison) * He's So Fine (Chiffons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005