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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  episode is being advertised with the tag line, "Turn a Poker Dud Into a Five ... featured on an episode of TLC's A Makeover Story. Andrea Wong '88 is the ... Poker Authority"), will be on the Bravo reality television show "Queer Eye

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  that leading is not necessarily the same as contributing, but to ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight ... will not last. if your blade was too dull, that is because you yourself ... illusion, the struggle in the bhagavad gita is about conviction and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... ? That my experiments didn’t work? That the effect I investigated is likely ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  delicious European food. 8128. Actually, 21F.782 is definitely not the only ... Germany)! The coolest thing about an immersion program is that you are ... student in the program is required to write 3 short entries for the blog

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  currently is, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about that yet. BUT WAIT ... catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night ... new perspective. The first thing I discovered is that the T is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... from succeeding. What’s more is that some of the very same people I had debated actually were not very good at public speaking: they lacked the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  tasted just like vegetables with rice and soy sauce, which is not bad by ... with turkey or chicken. Another alteration we made to the recipe is the ... , yeah we are not sure if the type of lentils or the boiling of the lentils

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  Winter Olympics. But these athletic games are not the only highly ... problems is graded from 0-7 points, with partial credit given (on the above ... international olympiads, and not just for the US but also international students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  this is not actually the case, please don't crush my dreams ... nice pictures which is obviously the only thing that matters. Hair ... was not the case. These twists were easy to do and so pretty! Plus my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  am so excited. Rheingold is the first opera (Wagner called it the ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being only two and a half hours long. But the opera is self-standing and

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  ). Anna's Taqueria is the only Mexican restaurant on campus, but everybody ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students ... , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host student(s) is (are) responsible for the conduct of her/his guests including ... . Sleeping overnight in the public areas of a House (e.g., lounges) is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic ... strategies -- Drop Date, the last date you can drop a class, is two or three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... is (vaguely) the dimension of what you're considering."] possible ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  difficulty of recipe and whether or not it contained the LN2 that you ... starvation in ways that do not involve the Ben Salinas Delight (last Wed. night ... -flavors-of-Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic ... implementation to consider, not to mention all the ethics, advocacy, and ... adventurer from the desert who speaks music and Japanese and is never afraid to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  man, I was. The smell of the forge is of ash and polishing wax, not ... is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more ... the weld will sit atop the workpiece and not fuse much of anything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022