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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it ... transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science ... Program in Media Arts and Sciences; the Program in Art, Culture, and
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  s, Arrigo Boito, my great-great uncle, was involved heavily in opera. During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... from my 4th floor room in New House (a dorm with no elevator) to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran ... effective when learning, but it does result in me frantically trying to drag ... sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  ;   Ugly Betty I had no interest in this show but my mom told me to ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a ... this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to ... undergraduates are welcome to apply. We hope to hire 3 incoming freshmen and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  interested in connecting the two, mostly because I wanted to respect some ... besides MITAdmissions.org in case you want to read about science and cats ... Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  my literary career. Just in time to introduce you to Random Hall ... decorated like a homeless guy's scrapbook. In addition to the gems below ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning, went to my class, handed in my problem set, and went home and crashed ... the candy wrappers in my room and trying to help me write this blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween costumes. In my freshman year, the “best costume” award was given to a guy ... ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  aspects of MIT you'd like to learn more about, let me know in the comments ... Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms,  you have your friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  Light Drift (Those orbs in the river actually correspond to orbs on ... flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These ... Art, special library archives, etc.) Well I’m here to share some photos

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  Hello all! I’m just popping in to show you guys a video from an ... Weekend. Last year, I waited four hours in the rain to see N.E.R.D. I would ... East Movement (FM) to MIT’s Walker Memorial – you know, the same place I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  in today. Jun's MIT classmate, Jeff Ma '94, has started an "athlete stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of ... joyfully reminding us that although she had only one final in 7 ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of your business, but try not to worry too much. Remember the difference ... 'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  I want to keep the intro to this post pretty short because the ... to the history, growth, and, most importantly, the culture of MIT. The prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012