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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We ... Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... Awareness week, so also took time to prepare for our philanthropic event. All

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the ... prolonging some people's lives, they don't work for everyone and there is still ... alarmingly high rates. I want your help. Will you please sponsor me for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience ... fundraiser for the Cambridge YWCA. You may remember an advertisement for this ... COMPETITION! The emcees asked the audience for "rubix cube people" to unscramble

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered ... . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... what to pack for CPW? Check out the 10 day forecast. Following up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen ... 's Peter de Florez Fund for Humor, UA Finboard, and ARCADE. For information ... ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  'd" banners, festive for the season. The "uncapped" banner will return after the ... tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... from two actual members of the MIT Class of 2010! Thanks for stopping by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... for the snow because that means snow football and more occasions for hot ... setting up for the event. Rebecca gives pointers on how to eat healthy for

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in ... the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal-compound catalyst for metathesis--a chemical process wherein two reacting structures

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission. Basically, we're looking for students with broad interests, both academic and ... "look good" on their resume or college application. We look for students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... the end. (thanks for all your well-wishing on the last entry too! you ... - I took 4 courses and had my UROP for credit - so I'm not that hardcore

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it ... for having horrible eating habits. It’s cool. I’ll accept it. I hate my

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

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  This post was written for the final project for 24.03 Good Food: The ... , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... like the best option for me. Prospective students, I hope this post gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  've been trying to give up certain things and routines I take for granted so I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go about two weeks before I start to feel shaggy. I stopped showering for 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools ... ago so that undergrads like me can use these tools for this exact

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... that i decided this would be good for me. i am taking four math classes

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  another blog, so for now, let us get on with the content. Each class year ... merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my ... , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures ... differential equations for-credit. Here's why I decided to do this: Introductory math classes at MIT don't always work for me. I had a wonderful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021