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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  Thu Hang from Warwick University, who took all those beautiful pictures ... After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  an offsite meeting at the University of DC, meeting with leaders of the ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions ... things worth updating y'all about. So: a brief accounting/recounting of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of ... . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  Zev B. ‘08 thought they tasted fake, and prefers the sour versions of ... The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  . Hanging out in a dorm lounge with Song, and joking around for the rest of ... Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  . Levitt teaches a class on the economics of crime at University of Chicago ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  got time to hang out with some of the students at both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. My favorite parts about these few ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  like to hang out. Couple this with a bunch of our sisters visiting Boston ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... (according to Wikipedia, “Tom Brokaw dropped out of The University of Iowa ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates are there yet the bottom bunks have all already been claimed. so of

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  came to claim their diplomas, I lost track of my friends as I was taking ... front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   ... MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to ... gallon. The tireless enthusiasm of students is one reason universities ... mature sector of the economy will pose complex challenges, universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality ... their adamantine purity despite the passage of time. As Diana Henderson

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness ... . Okay? And universal history since has seen a kind of evolution of star ... property of the universe, is what blasted out along with everything in it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011