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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob ... time Halloween themed! Here's the gist of it: If years of Halloween ... location of where in the park we will be dancing, merely go to this map: http

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... of class even started. Still, I’ve put myself in the box of being an ... ,[/annotation] back when I was carefree and hadn’t yet been slammed with the reality of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly ... of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... 't know the location of - grabbed a cab. The cab cost 710 yen (~$7), but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard ... joint major, 21E/S, actually is.) Last year, I made the mistake of ... eliminated the possibility of nametag-induced confusion. I connected with a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... summer and head off to what I think will be one of the best weeks of my ... their individual profiles. I'm part of the camp group called the Egyptians

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield ... would tomorrow lose the ability to put food between slices of bread. “Year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  ballgown THE DAY OF THE BALL and getting away with it. Straight ahead, by ... of it (each is about twice the height of the garbage can) - a friend sent me some posters in the mail recently. One is of Cassiopeia, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10 ... discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest ... ! You experienced the benefits of a superconductor! The giant magnetic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the ... the sillier benefits, I think, of going through heartbreak is also being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  students, researchers from the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning ... installations showcasing the result of MIT’s technological prowess meshed with the ... flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... ): Check out (also: 1, 2) the annual parade of elephants, which delighted folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... some of these people are supposed to be in class right now, but the

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... no connection in between the two. But even though I have the memory of ... District the other day, and the five of us spent a good while trying on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive ... the days of yore - the good ol' pass/no record days, which are now a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012