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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at ... , EVERYTHING IS A NUMBER. So we arrived at our first restaurant after not too ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks ... Melinda Gates doesn't seem to be so thrilled about it. Look at that scowl. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  plays Mirabelle, a shy 26 year-old sales clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue, who ... and lonely apartment. One night at the Laundromat, she meets Jeremy, a ... awkward scenes that leave you squirming in your seat. Awkward situations at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  interest at dinner parties, that is, unless MIT junior Emily Levesque happens ... gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... than for some young researcher to be tagged "the new Einstein," so don ... ," said Dr. Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Case Western Reserve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... Sox party hopping started, beginning at the previously mentioned Jeff's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  interviewer's information, contact interview at mit dot edu for assistance ...  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day, I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have ... "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  thing, and I'm just using it as a crutch for myself whenever I'm bad at CS ... . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... up the presentation, there was a part of me that ached for that same

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year ... Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... specials and kosher foods, the hall is open for business for most hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  makes for athletics. Despite what may happen at other schools, MIT does ... to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department ... prescription drug coverage for elders, looking at how elders are doing making ... At Friday's Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge Auditorium

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting ... , weather shouldn't make or break your decision! When I arrived at MIT, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  Institut Curie. I spent my time at Curie in a few projects. For my main ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  Tourbot, and popped into random people’s dorms all for being at an ... absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007