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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  huge chunk of money that is allocated to the floors to have activities ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... and hobbled back to the dorm with all of it in our backpacks. The next

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets ... line of the guys' race, which at that moment has to be the most ... our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  , anyway. The interview is simply a way for you to tell us in person. Some ... point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  the sun began to set in much clearer skies, I reflected on my experience ... . It's odd to think about it in this way, but MIT is one of the last ... now that I felt at ease in and around the water. More to the point, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011