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• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  real." a bowl is a bowl is a bowl. in the song branches, the chorus isn ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york office, for i didn't like the bay area as much as i thought. in another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours ... awe that others in esp had the strength to write the announcement email

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  athletes who want to be recruited is to get in contact with the coaching ... court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... my freshman year, we finished 15th in the country, which is the highest

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  mailing lists, there is a catch in that you have to write a color at the end ... sororities with horror movies, so it's nice to see them in a different, MUCH ... the most confusing, funny, or [annotation note="anything is an adjective

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  are in most contexts taboo. The New York Times once hailed it as ... . Originally premiered in 1996, The Vagina Monologues remains perhaps the most ... Teaching Assistants The final shout-out in this post goes to my awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  the most non-linear path I could find on Canva): Somewhere in there ... . In the fall of 2024, no longer able to produce thoroughly researched ... , though, was art. And I loved it! In the midst of so much leaving my list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the ... which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  post is NOT, in fact, about aliens: Bell's "noise" turned out to mark the ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the ... seasons you can hike & swim there; in the fall, the foliage is breathtaking

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  square one. :) The thing that keeps coming back to me, though, is that I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... Dora the Explorer is coming to town, or something, but if that's true I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at ... to learn to fly and is looking at taking pilot lessons over the summer ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... uncannily rich in food metaphors, with perhaps the most famous example being ... doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  at MIT. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I got to learn about ... about the goblin that loved pickles so much, he forgot to stop Hanukkah ... blogging for the past year and I hope it continues to be so in the future

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005