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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to bore you all to death with an insider's look on some more specific ... making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... "blogging" folder, which I haven't had time to set up yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about ... able to replace it overnight. Back at home, we have a Rottweiler

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly ... , I just watched Napoleon Dynamite again.) To make up for the lack of

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened. But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  like to collect things that we are too attached to to throw away. We put ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Economics, and #9 in Political Science—these are numbers you can show off to ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank ... Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of ... that the MIT community will pause to commemorate and recognize Indigenous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... time to dress myself and perform my morning rituals (namely brushing my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... plum sauce, because I’m allergic to cranberries, and farina cake after a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to ... I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006