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• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  Carolina], will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar, she was also named as one of Glamour Magazine’s top ten college women in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... which they stood? Did they even know the country in which he operated ... in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon "Underdog" was syndicated in the 1980s ... Energy Pill were edited out because censors thought they suggested drug abuse. Wow, Super Energy Pill would be an awesome band name. Uh, sorry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... crazy and do lots of work in exotic places during Independent Activities ... red dot in the north is Quito, the city we started and ended in. We

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october" by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  Modern Family where Cam and Mitchell take sleeping pills and then walk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  months after caught in the act of rape, and black Brian Banks gets ... . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and eba and fufu and egusi and suya. In America, food is burger and pasta

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We ... people about sex and relationships and what's okay and what's not okay in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  something in our lab?" "Take vitamins!" "You don't eat enough food!" "Eat ... I would from the giant pills, so I got the giant intimidating pills. They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... Without Borders - the Taiwanese version) into the Aborigines villages in Taiwan. Early July -> Early August: Back in MIT, working on a UROP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  this list, read this. He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second ... dark plot. Best experienced in print, but it's also on Steam. Let's play

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... they took anyone's picture and name and stuck it in seamlessly. (The ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  problem of dirty and disease-ridden water. A “pill you put in the glass,” a ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... being a nurse. Her village had clean water, unlike many other villages in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  investing a bit more money in upfront. A cheap sweater that pills and falls ... midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... make the biggest investment.  No, the cute jacket you bought in July won

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015