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  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow ... FSILGs tend to locate themselves in whatever nice house they can acquire

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards. "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in ... encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  wasn't the smartest person in the class -- it was great to have friends ... , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the ... even sent a police officer down in Crystal River, Florida, to check it ... does seem to be accidental (and also her name is redacted in the police

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  , the amazing MIT Asian Dance Team. In which this guy uses a yo-yo to ... crawled to Next House exhausted, stopped in the lounge to talk about ... This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  ask you to please be civil and kind in your comments in today's entries ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all ... difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  on, pass/no record grading, acclimating to city life and being in one ... decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my ... freshmen guys because I'm going to talk about my rush). You've probably

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   ... eutectic -- something to do with melting points -- hung in the chocolate ... Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO ... *gettingallthepiledupworkdoneafteranentireweekendofhavingtoomuchfun*cough* :P As usual, let any of us know if we can help you in any way to make ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007