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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM ... limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the only person keeping this world in balance.  He's kind of like the Avatar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... out of touch with American life that I didn’t even remember the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale ... ! Students, educators, and other segments of the MIT community crowded room

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross country and track team is to Jamaica Pond (part of the Boston’s Emerald

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... 'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing ... missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... inspirational here that would make the hurt of not being admitted go away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... photographing Boston Ride the full length of the Red Line Attend all the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs ... desktop called “Graveyard of the Forsaken”, the hero realized that the ... is the time. Signed, Petey of the Blogs.” With the passage of time

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... Jimmy and Howard Brown. The part of the article that most touched me was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire apple pie and a whole bunch of delicious bread, then watch twelve hours of football until the insulin pouring out of my eyes from all of the carbs sends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid ... 'm of the opinion that the way to dispel stereotypes about MIT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My ... whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005