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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  your ginger beer. If it is still very sweet, the yeast has not eaten up ... changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open ... learned: Dried Fruit! Dried fruit is perhaps the easiest snack you can make

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  often preface their problems with the statement that "this problem is not ... recitation. The 7 is a little bit more amorphous. Some problem sets are easier ... completely gets the problem, and then there are times you might not get it at

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... before going to MIT. This was definitely not the subject of any of my ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  existence. I need to interject here that this post is not about the issues of ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... person using their own data for their own delight. What follows is the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... : next on my calendar is the Siemens Regional Finals, hosted here at MIT by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Exchange. This is the actual exchange program. CMI is the Cambridge ... England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... of us visited Girton College, which (I think) is the farthest college

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... from these blogs, the MIT student population is remarkably diverse and it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  good. The sun is starting to set, and Boston is strangely not showing its ... the same question: “How do you like it here?” and “Is Nigeria different ... . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  way to his day camp every morning. His favorite off the album is "Rye ... videos for a neat-o cause. Not every summer day is sunny and jivin'. Here ... -loving friends out there, and apologies for not including the trifecta of Joni

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  . (No, not everything can be considered food by adding the term "flambé ... dorm to see whether or not the plan should go forward. You don't have to ... bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the ... culture of the students I think is something that really drew me there ... is. "Astrophysics is basically the large scale structure of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... of place at the conference, since MIT is different than many other ... are considered in our admissions process. MIT is lucky enough to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  static recently, I know. This is because we've been working hard behind the ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  interviews. And believe it or not, restoring one's sanity is a totally ... red dot in the north is Quito, the city we started and ended in. We ... . That spot all the way east is a lodge in the Amazon rainforest: we took a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past ... her colors to contrast these delicate celery curtains. Her room is the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  about my lab is the fairly even spread of different types of South ... nearly as complete as they were not so long ago, but the fact of the matter ... courses. It is one of the many shanty towns that litter the city of Cape

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  of the biggest events I'm looking forward to is JULY FOURTH! Boston is ... .org/concertnfireworks/fireworks/) - The number of shells and devices used each year is over 10,000. - The total number of pounds of pyrotechnics is more than 17,500. - The highest

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  butt, but not nearly as bad as before. Physics is also kicking my butt ... funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help ... update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... , trying to manage your temperature, and that ice is not just ice the world ... my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012