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• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  . 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and ... degrees Fahrenheit. Pour about a cup of olive oil into a large bowl. Add a ... This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 ... about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you ... pretty sizeable list of “things that tip people off”.  Some of these items

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers (members of burton third)"]friends:[/annotation] Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  that work great rather than offering a whole array of less robust ... April, a group of four sophomores, who are all incoming GEL students, won ... -recognition application, EatOn. This program helps drivers choose restaurants by offering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012