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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint ... discovered and characterized by Morgan, the professor whose lab I work in. Lots

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  requires me to drive by open pastures of cows, I might cave. We'll see. So ... So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of ... . And tour groups in Killian Court looked at it as they went by. Hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  Rutherford's discovery of the atom by hurling ping pong balls at strings of ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Swedish meatballs (made by a real Swede!), a professional-looking German chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... , after the hour by the Charles, I sat on the floor of my room with two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  -lovable Elizabeth, '13, by snapping a picture of one of these people in uncomfortably ... .The stories told by some of the participating fraternities, sororities, and ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  is...) Let me start off by saying this is probably one of my favorite ... significant percentage of its community CPR certified. We upheld our status by ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for lunch and dinner. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while ... [annotation note="!!! time is going by alarmingly fast"]finishing our first semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we ... were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  attendants were concerned about me. Regardless, by the end of it when the ... by the end of Week 2 in Taiwan, powered by my parents’ mobile hotspot ... This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , united by the kinds of problems you think about or the approaches you take ... über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  purchase of the swimsuit by using the MIT pools as well—they are 10 and 2 ... by predicting the likelihood of their recidivism). Fun tangent: I met a ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  the field of atmospheric science looks like today. So, by the time I had ... ??"]completely different fields,[/annotation] the fact of being surrounded by people who are ... I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... ) lecture fell prey, and, by the third week of classes, I just stopped ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... park are actually embankments built in 1775 at the command of none other than George Washington. After Lexington and Concord, the pair of battles

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018