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• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of the regulars have insisted on calling me Nance Nance Revolution (NNR). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its survival instincts, or it was wondering if I was made of the same material. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Kennebunk, Maine. The sand was the perfect dampness for writing, so I proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... the mid-60s!). This is the view from Simmons' 8th floor terrace. F) My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  knew that this was the chance of a lifetime, that there would never be ... come out with us to Consume the Meat. "This would be my second time ... being crushed against the car door and Raymond's obnoxious manspread.  He

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  to be truly amazing. Some of my favorites were:  the Afro ... , but with more leeway than in the US, which I’ve had to be aware of each ... mountainside where there used to be a waterfall, considered the environmental

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  database design trade-off always seems to be like this: the faster you drive ... Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... awesome gig. Now I'm going to be even more self-absorbed and obnoxiously

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the ... dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the ... . Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... fruit in them need to go in the fridge, ginger needs to be stored ... microwave. They technically should be put in the oven, but sometimes I just

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  meant I had so much more freedom to be spontaneous than during the ... must have been like to be the Blaschkas: to just keep renewing ten ... was being renovated. But the people I was with made it feel truly mind

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  didn't feel invested in my classes. Finding the right fit can be a ... . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  /repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why we evolved this way. Some people think it helped us identify the diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  . “It’s the established wisdom of the top levels of MIT without being ... 's how we have the freedom to write honestly about what it's like to be an ... -driven, then let them be data-driven, and let their decisions be subject to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  was so, so relaxing to be out on Charles, with the gorgeous Boston ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat ... , i just ran around the floor screaming me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010