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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... the long run. Everything is sweet. If you give a mouse a cookie

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  envy. The view, however, is not intended for the weak of stomach, or ... friend Sondy at pika is urging me to share the following video filmed ... and kick Eva Mendes in the head (not in person, sadly), run on Memorial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  the technical shapes them. The internet, in particular, is an artifact shaped not only by technical standards, but by the often utopian ... primary deliverable for the class is a term paper on a topic of the student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a ... Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the ... . Number 88 is "Count your steps down the Infinite Corridor." So I figured

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  lack of group outings and physical entertainment. The service is not much ... , where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  after the Regular Action deadline) is what applicants should do now that they've hit the submit button. The simple answer is to fill out the FUN ... the project was to have students try to create a bot (often, though not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  been possible were it not for the wonder that is IAP. See, my IAP isn ... your left is the Lake City Amtrak Station." "Where?" I asked. "You missed ... Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... with the spreadsheet, there is now a FORM you MUST fill out if you want a ... we could vote on whether or not we approved the design. Of course

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  same direction, then the atom is at a higher energy level than if one is spinning up and the other is spinning down. The electron can spontaneously ... integral is. I was shocked at how much I could remember. 11:30pm. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  Hi friends, My final semester at MIT is well underway and spring break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... be famous to the prefrosh Also shown: This picture trying hard not to ... like $1100, which is pretty awesome. In fact, the entire fundraising

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... beginning to end, so we understood not just the solution, but the process

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  fun it is to work the registration desk at midnight. McGreggor strikes ... pictures until the closing ceremony. This is what you guys looked like from ... . Seriously, Shaye and his ZBT brothers (Bryan is one) are some of the nicest

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... that a good sense of humor is important.” And it’s not just engineering ... students as well (the military is a deadly serious profession, but a good

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  years ago, adiponectin (see the ribbon representation on the right) is a ... 's actually found at decreased levels! The signaling receptor of adiponectin is ... HST is in the field of bioinformatics. He uses MATLAB "to analyze data

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  open in coach, and the lounge is not yet fully awake, I suspect. It is my ... ="84434" image6="84433" /] This is not to say that there is no motion in the hills ... This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  misquoted on the internet is not being misquoted on the internet." Maya ... your post is something like, "you can never perfectly predict the result ... whatever topic is easiest to talk about, then compare it to the topic of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... on everything. As the election nears, it is important to acknowledge ... the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  the case of family, that care is unconditional. I definitely have not ... team this IAP. This is pretty exciting, because I have always read the ... home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3 ... periodic function, so sleep is a periodic function also (as evidenced by the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008