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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co-developing a technique called RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi gives scientists the ... my freshman year UROP at MIT's Center for Cancer Research. The Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... , essentially but-first-let-me-take-a-selfie'ing the entire commencement

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  at a major turning point for the protagonist, the movie ends up being a ... person just for the heck of it and then have a party where they serve food ... twenty minutes into the movie which I consider a crowning achievement for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  packages over the summer and IAP Advocated for a low-cost student ... -term food insecurity Been a voice for the 10% of students that have lacked ... candy by the cashier for a reason. If you can order your list in the order

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty ... that goes into making a mascot! For one: there’s a process behind putting on the Tim costume. And an application. And a video. In fact, there

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  toddler doors for mini-golf remains a mystery. The long-term benefit of DEW ... to justify the pain. After lunch, we went downtown for a Freedom Trail ... not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  it on the guitar. To quote a Redditor explaining their dislike for ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the ... conclusion. For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding ... Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part ... tongue, we don't recall the definition of each word. A conversation isn't a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  ? -Historically, there isn't a stable lecturer for the class. -I already have 5 ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  active combatants who had a swell time scouring the web for annoyances to ... for my phone from a box of free phone covers on the fourth floor ... up with enough leftovers for the rest of the week. It was a glorious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone ... clothing that reflected the weather to a five-person dress that turned into a living space. The first piece down the double escalator runway was a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... 's easy for you to learn about neat stuff through the grapevine. If you

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and ... , despite the common perception that they're automatic A courses, are not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I ... specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I ... Caleb's bed, there's a lot of ramen. That is the designated communal food

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... ):   ...or President Reif taking a selfie (Reif-ie?) with the MIT seal

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... /no record was a great opportunity for me to experiment with my studying habits

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... they are not distant from the students. Freshman year, I had a recitation taught by a Nobel Laureate. Freshman in 7.012 this term have the privelege

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006