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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  errant shopping cart from the grasp of its adopted siblings, and checked ... have yearned for the joys of cart-based transportation. I was never bold ... of carts exist in the world, but none are designed with the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele work quietly. There are books along the walls, most of them higher than ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed ... leaves, and evidence of beavers in the forests they shaped (see below ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  , a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might ... semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the most delectable desserts on this side of the country including chocolate

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  : the annual growth of the Novembeard. The rituals of No ... , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on the area of the face located below the nose and above the upper lip. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT ... '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard ... all the schools withstanding rounds and rounds of forms and sparring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  so happens that christmas coincides with the end of the fall semester, which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... of other events, but nonetheless I found the time to make the trek over

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah ... , until the lady got tired with how incredibly stupid I was and started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day ... 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