Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  challenges and hopes to finding a cure. ... Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James ... mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a ... (where you do need a master's to enter a PhD program). Actually, the only ... 'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul), so my grind didn’t start until week 2, where I started off with a 14

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you ... where you want to live; some are easy like "would you like to go skiing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... ! Summer before freshman year = time to relax."]desperately needed a break ... 't know how to do a traditional task, or when my predecessor was officially

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  the Forum in Inglewood, California, where he brought out a gospel choir ... 's up to y'all. Y'all the future." (28:01) This is just a snippet of a long response Kanye gives about his journey to finding God and coming to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on ... previous posts. Essentially, I worked on a new way to obtain precise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... Program exhibition.   Yes, that does seem to be a photograph of a ... exhibition is still a great place to wander through. It's a pretty eclectic

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... stretch to meet the lens. I once saw a woman squint a Saturn, and without ... they've been struggling to find an "Algebra for Kids!" book. I said that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... Falmouth, MA, an hour and a half from MIT, where there are faeries and ... is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  , 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 ... the food processor, and you turn it back on. And you start to worry a

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

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to ... to the class the following email: Dear All: We’re hosting a very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... . So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest ... which non-MIT people would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  . Miso Ramen Soup It's really hard for me to find ramen that doesn't use a ... really good and I was very happy to find a vegan ramen option. Chilli ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... off, you have to find it. When the snooze alarm is pushed, Clocky rolls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in ... mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022