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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT ... grabbed a program to read while waiting for the lecture to begin. That ... year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... are just as likely to get into a rain bin as the water—the larger the ... as these to simply get from point A to point B, including to collect

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant ... familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to my baby. Usually, by 5 pm, there's a loaf on the table and that ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... was so impossible for me to get a double major? Maybe it has to do with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... refreshing to read a few posts from alumni who are now over 15 years from when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  Worcester to see a Nightwish concert. Taking the T is essential for getting ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... —there were too many clouds to have a long enough viewing window to appreciate ... or not to take a picture of it. Tuesday I sleep through breakfast. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  hairline fractures that race across your windshield when it gets struck by a ... smashed to bits by a thousand avoidable pebbles and my mind and body aching ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to ... since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but ... miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn ... was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... , though, because I'm not really getting to the heart of the issue. Spaghetti

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  , it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... ), events I'm looking forward to, and other appointments. Getting this birds

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025