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  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  Gilroy Garlic Festival 2005: The entrance is flanked by two port-a-potties. A little bird tells me that between 120,000 and 150,000 people attend each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  "the best." There are many ways to raise a "good" kid and being a stay ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of ... repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... ,075 applications, and is far and away the most applications we have ever received. Nonetheless, we carefully considered them all, subjecting them to the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  when people are trying to pick colleges, and I want to expand on that a ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  , this weekend is the one I've been looking forward to all year. Besides ... too busy lately to really go, so I'm excited for that as well. And ... , though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  experience, I can attest to the fact that utility optimization is a TERRIBLE ... there is a LOT of hype around CPW, and as someone whose brain had already ... –rigid one second, fluid the next, and impossible to properly shove into a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  the fruit and chop it up a little bit so that it has some room to fall ... , and is a crazy thrifter (he actually has the craziest finds i've ever ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a ... . There is a company that owns and monetizes this test and makes $20 million ... neuroscientists, or provokes a little introspection. But the danger of MBTI is that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  lives the game is over. There's a highscore system so that you can compete ... that serves the same function as an umbrella. It's an attachment to a ... . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental ... role, a different persona. There was who I was at MIT, and there was who ... further and further through MIT, the person I am at MIT, that person who

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the ... that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember ... anticipated. Tonight, pretty much the same story, but with no deadlines to shaft

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... performing groups we have, and how big of a performing arts scene there is on ... creators and its audience (that's me! and you!). If this is the sort of thing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the ... , it is, you're half way there. My friend acheived all 5 things, and he ... record: There is no guaranteed way to be admitted to MIT. Certainly, it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... other words, all my relatives that are currently in this country). And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Kindle to read off the recipes and stream some jazz from a music festival ... a lot of the chemicals you work with in 5.310, and the HEK cells that ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , your mission, is to solve the world's great challenges, and that nothing ... ; a show happens, a poem is written and read, and then it is on to the ... expectations and the stakes feel higher, in a way that makes it hard to keep

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  to the USA, then there was a Q-and-A session. She mentioned that what ... So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... afar, you might be tempted to think that there’s a forty-story behemoth ... that you need a makeshift coordinate system to refer to each window (“the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ="currently, the question is 'what is to be done?'"]a new question each week for ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022