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• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  thrown on us at Blue Man Group Thursday: - a tour of IPI pharmaceuticals ... So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool ... repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  can still be an act of love. Figure 6. Serving food at the Night ... at MIT for the opportunity to help! At the time of this writing, the ... beets at 375oF for 1hr and leave them out to cool Peel and cut, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... ) is "life is short." His phone is currently at 1% battery, but it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  State Department of Health urban planner at Dyatt & Bhatia student ... School of Public Health admissions officer at MIT (this one is me ... Barclays Global Investors completed PhD at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce ... give a preview of my four years at MIT in the artistic form of my ... So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  during my sophomore year, but one time we were at a dorm formal and looked at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  apples at Honey Pot Hill orchards, fallen in love with my roommate’s gummy bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun ... clearly not a wise decision. And how the many incredible events at MIT all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at ... way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... not born on my birthday. :-( He was born at 10:40PM on 1/11/06, weighing

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  School of Management. Frank Lee, co-founder at Bevi. MBA at MIT Sloan ... Electrical Engineering at MIT. Colin Sidoti, director of product at Charitweet ... Simmons, founder at Curative Orthopaedics, designer of comfortable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and ... have made at MIT so far. Going abroad made me realize the scale of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023