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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... sounds, I was always used to being close to the top of my class. After a while, I intentionally strived to maintain that not because I felt a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a ... to read this blog entry that I wrote a number of years ago sharing some ... themself, including whether MIT is likely to be a good cultural fit.  The

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... the North End. Get this….there are shelves after shelves of different pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch ... . The advantage to the device is that it activates by just pushing the ... not to sign a contract to appear on MTV's The Real World: Boston (season

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of ... service, and so on April 21st I got up at a ridiculous hour to watch people ... life, from college students to grandparents to amputees to a woman who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical ... wrote to a friend (oversentimentally as always--that's me! No limit ... , threatening to bloom. A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 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 ... by chocolate. Someone else confirmed that there was a meaty flavor that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... -research course, to be called “MIT and Slavery.” Led by Professor Wilder and MIT ... a brief break from committee to attend a live webcast and discussion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... 'm actually taking the class on junior/senior P/D/F, so I'll just get a passing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006