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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they ... was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... everything from the quality of the food to the state of education in China ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  held class in her office, and made us tea. Anyway, before this becomes an ... ". This class is notorious for taking a LOT of time. In partners, students ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school ... loves to spam reminders for work I’m procrastinating on. Sprinkled in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of ... with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be ... Institute. Many of them will be credited as co-authors for peer ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  explicit race in mind for this fantasy guy, in retrospect, whiteness was an ... associating with whiteness, because of course that is what one would wish for in ... In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  going on titled "Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China" over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down ... apparently, every hour today, MISTI which stands for MIT International Science

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, began as an effort to ... -tagged (and there's an antenna sitting in a pan that holds up the glass plate ... themselves. Little do my campers suspect that they may actually be in for a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  for people who are interested in scavenging for free food in random ... something who are fluent in Spanish or French or Italian for no apparent ... here for 3 months, because the environment at home--living in a dorm with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... revealing my successor in an upcoming entry! ... Sorry for being MIA -- these past few weeks have been exceptionally

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... sprinkle in some seasoning and light thesaurusy-words and creativity for the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  fill-in-the-blank University all along!" guy. Don't do it. For more ... This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY/NJ) four very expensive coffee-flavored quesadillas for dinner in Times ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  .) There's some great information in there. For one thing, back in the day an ... -billion dollar company came up with for the web in 1996: McDonalds-1996 ... ? But apparently a website that failed to inspire respect for an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . My favorite author spoke in the same manner that he wrote. I wondered ... Boston Book Festival brochure to him for a signature. I felt small in his ... books for a signature. Then, cue the best moment of the day: the author

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week ... Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best ... Public Library Architectural tours... mmmm Chinatown China

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  ) arrangement -- in which an energy producer will receive a fixed price for ... single buyer in Italy responsible for supplying energy to retail consumers who are not eligible for competitive supply, asked NERA to assist in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006