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• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of the time, donuts and coffee would be served at a 10 AM thesis defense ... , and Rocco try to figure out how to prepare their chicken tetrazzini

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  Science Institute, so I'm pretty excited to declog my arteries and eat a ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... and tell them I'm just a normal kid who chugged two waterbottles before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  awesome pianist David graciously offered to present my Theme and Variations ... faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... , Smith, Wellesley, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, WPI, and of course MIT. After

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn ... (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  , most students take the General Institute Requirements and learn that the ... lately is that MIT is a competitive and cutthroat place, and that ... instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , for instance, that chocolate has six crystalline states and that heating ... chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about, appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  and become a better person and found a community despite the Institute ... with spontaneous trips, future-job-preparation stuff, and lots and lots ... shows while I was there, Allegiance and Fun Home. Allegiance told the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  there. And while in various senses I think I achieved that to some degree ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I ... ." Regardless, it's 9:05am, and I am awake 9 minutes too early. I decide I will

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related ... change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Instruments Company and diagonally across from the "old dormitories ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be ... christened together, and the '93 Dormitory would henceforth be known as

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  them all over the state, cut airfoils and constructed planes from scratch ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3 percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us ... , temperature) and translating for doctors (yay Spanish!) These blog entries may ... was no cell phone reception, and electricity was only intermittent at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  email a professor anytime to ask about life, UROPs, the universe, and ... .801 Political Science Scope and Methods, 17.803 Political Science Laboratory (the sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  . '23 takes me up on my offer, and we cross into Boston on the Longfellow ... up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and ... my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  teacher, Dr. V. He was a really simple man from the great state of Iowa and ... and obvious. "Yes." "Well then why would you say such a thing?" I ... have fun. Play your DS and we can watch Pokemon when we go home." I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020