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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  Rocky went. Lex Luthor Ok, maybe not a great example as far as "Doing ... fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief ... "likes". Cornell is super jealous, and they started trash talking a bit

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  Simon & Garfunkel coming in as a close second.  I like doing impressions ... tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political ... decided to take a year off to learn more about myself and figure out what my

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... years ago and historians still do not know whether it was built for religious or scientific purposes. Image from the BBC. A similar phenomenon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... .001 lecture was one and a half straight hours of that basic concept. Only it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many amazing pictures from last weekend and writing a super-awesome entry about ... is GORGEOUS outside, and I am a sucker for warm weather. Winter is nice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty sure I'll do it. I'm excited! I've always wanted to learn French.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a well-earned, relaxing weekend after working for 12 days in a row. New entries here next week, promise. Have a great weekend everybody. -B Edit

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun through the sky is roughly a circle that moves north and south as the
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  . Winnie also pulls up a tutorial on how to do it properly, unlike Dylan and ... A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  groundwork for continuing to do it. A tip experienced artists always give is to ... once a week because you really should be doing that, and getting ... when I'm not following my schedule. I keep my space tidy, since doing a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  our old rice cooker. Yes, a rice cooker.  [caption id="attachment_55827 ... [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and ... -taking, we actually do cook and bake a lot, and we’ve got the eggs to do it at ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  host. As I’m sure you noticed, most had to do with food, which was a very ... ) GTL (Global Teaching Labs –– we sure do love our acronyms), teaching ... .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... matters: playing football, heaving a shot put, framing a house, lifting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  some work done. Desk is such a great job--basically getting paid to do ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... middle of homework. We had a team of roughly 25 students calling students

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012