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• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... , humans, and pigs, but it has been more widespread than H1N1 for the past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... 'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our ... accessible for the low, low price of $15 via the Fung Wah bus. As a consolation

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound ... my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened ... as possible the day before the concert we did a quick sound test and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  , but in a few minutes I will watch the Germany vs. Italy semifinal match ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the names for the shapes of bacteria -- cocci, bacilli, spirilla-- sound

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

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South ... the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Not Admitted A forum.

  

  There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year ... open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  Meet the Bloggers, a glorious event for which we are required to wear t ... Banti G. '17 won a contest for best dorm room in Boston! He built the loft ... desert for a solar car world cup! The Solar Car itself, months before the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare ... , I take to mean "assembly for the renewal of a charter"?) consisted of ... ; I wrote the second part after having not seen them for a few days. Ah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... . I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl. Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a ... brisk for you! CPW RECAP I would like to give a shout out to all of the ... campus. This was a great way for us to prove that the minority community

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products really did embody the spirit of this year's theme. A super quirky band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  of the trottoir and have to wait a minute for your train, or for ... metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT, Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  a visit, but when I tell you the ballet itself, for lack of a better ... only do I feel a newfound appreciation for ballet (and ~the arts~), but I ... up all over the rainbow carpet and had to go home sick for the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  for a clear one (or remove it altogether) and see if the mouse still ... , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for ... has represented itself historically. The current "placeholder" for a ... Undergraduate Association to develop a new design for the beaver mascot costume

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021