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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... principle of metathesis. What is that? Organic substances contain the element ... with the assistance of special catalyst molecules. Metathesis can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too ... be easy to fall back on the sweet embrace of instant ramen, easy mac, and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the ... was comfortable, easy, and safe. Safe was good. So what was the point of ... heading off to college, billed as perhaps one of the greatest changes my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... if the bedrock of our society came crumbling down. I was less shocked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  entry to [annotation note="the Museum of Fine Arts"]the MFA,[/annotation] [annotation note="the Institute of Contemporary Arts"]the ICA ... aspects of the undergraduate life."]The UA[/annotation] helps fund

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of ... sets, as I love the freedom of expression and the absence of a "right ... colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and

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

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... live in the suburbs of Boston, and they came into Cambridge last weekend ... : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• 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.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time

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

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of ... afraid to speak up and talk to people. Ever heard of the elevator pitch

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... list-y theme of this post, there are three reasons I used the career fair

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  the human version of a core meltdown. NEVERTHELESS, we are all doing ... needs of the MNN duo (McKinley Nicole & Miles Nathaniel) and other ... -free times for the parents. I am calling all parents within the proximity of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... that the choice of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" was rather odd, even given

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  . Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I ... /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... assumption, so we try to bring the feel of the campus to you. We use short

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb ... classes–whether it’s the number of classes they take, the difficulty of said

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  dinner, and then the ensuing food comas, and then the weeklong marathon of ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact, [annotation note="Burton-Conner, one of the aforementioned cook

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... . Most of the time on this blog I just talk about me, but I'm just one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014