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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  generic name for soft drinks. If you go to a restaurant and say "Could I ... , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  our glasses on high to pledge our love for thee We join all those of ... I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  purchases to the cashier and slide my card and pay for my things, but then the ... to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  physical place, to an unsurpassed degree - it's a more natural activity for ... to go between floors - and this makes a dorm famous for introverts ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can ... . I take a five-minute break to check Facebook for messages, and spend ... grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  sounds (but isn't that why you wear perfume, for guys to notice?). Personal ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... for the conference. It was just that I had to wake up at 6 AM ... to think about how long it takes for academic research to become

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  protein!!), Henry and I decided to use our powers for evil. We grabbed the ... many times as possible, building useless things for the Bad Ideas Hackathon [annotation note="hi Ellie here to elaborate. IT WAS SUPER FUN

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and ... mentioned it for about 1/4th of a sentence, but I like to prolong my fleeting ... In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... Trader Joe's for the first time in my life, and grew to love their chicken ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... [/caption]   What do the bloggers have to say for themselves ... listening to this playlist for the past few days, and tbh, the bloggers have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  discussions, and is less likely to feel that she recieves due credit for her ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular ... they are likely to hold differing views when they leave. Women respect

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in translation. I'm here to introduce to you Jeju Island, South Korea, as ... assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA applicants: I know you're all anxious for Regular Action decisions, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  associated with reading, with applications to dyslexia. She also interned for ... as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... 's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... home. Allow me to give you the grand tour. Picture 1 gives you a great ... respect for my ingenious storage system, my colleagues will only leave

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  with you all, some for the first time, and some to continue our ongoing ... around here lately. We are busily preparing for Campus Preview Weekend -- setting up events, matching prefrosh (that's MIT jargon for you, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005