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• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  seeks to empower young Sri Lankan mothers made pregnant through rape and ... ’s rights, and race relations. She plans to do the M.Phil. in development ... underprivileged students. He eventually plans to pursue a doctorate in biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  yogurt smoothie in order to increase my protein and potassium consumption.  All you have to do is put a banana in a freezer for about a day and ... in the oven for about twenty minutes.  The original way to make these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... over 250 dances! getting into dance through K-pop, at least in the self ... choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  months after caught in the act of rape, and black Brian Banks gets ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... sinks in what he’s accusing me of, and as he begins to say “why can’t you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report ... it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... in too much of a rush to get here – enjoy this summer, spend time with ... (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... hippocratic society (complete with Skittle "pills") to chocolate science. At the ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which ... high school), how to balance extracurriculars, studying, and life, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its

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

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but ... probably a lot of prospective MIT students), that’s a hard pill to swallow ... unexpected joy in the situation. Accepting help gave the chance to make some

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  of time to shower (hair soaking wet in the Boston winter), get dressed ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... because I enjoy them. I'm getting better advice, or at least I'm learning to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014