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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  for everyone, and we pushed through to get all our dishes in downstairs ... to get the tradition going early. For our first Floor Frosh Social ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  night in Kampong Thom to do some work with our community partner FLIFLY at ... their own highly effective compost bins. It was a great example of how the ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  Today: "10 great places to bite into a big burrito" - Anna's Tacqueria, in ... how his son learned to speak, available here: MotherBoard: "Carlos ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some ... movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  'm very excited to get my own copy of this ring in April. It might just be a ... really fun to see everyone from our class all together, and realize how ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to ... in episode 2? It was AWESOME to meet George Takei. We did get to talk ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... challenge is proctored to help them identify aptitude, understand how students ... concepts are in our daily lives -- it might even motivate some students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  different things. Even in math, you often read about how great mathematicians ... and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  , people are really hardcore and get up at all hours to wait in line for ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  relevant to the subfield that each student prefers. I say it's "been" in the ... changes to the undergraduate program starting this year. In May I received ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  drafts leading up to A New Hope show a vast improement in quality ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... resurrection of Obi-Wan Kenobi. And how to explain this unlikely event? LUKE: Ben

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high ... teacher. Here, whenever I get the chance to go to a party with dancing, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... , and that's great. Also, feel free to comment with other things you find ... . I lived in the Midwest, but I was definitely not applying to any

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016