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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows ... software I could find that allowed both reversing a video and speeding it up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  . shameless self-promotion (why else) and 2. if you're seeing this, it means ... , how did we even), I took a class from The Most Excellent Professor ... bioengineering as an undergrad.) And what I learned was just how magnificent of a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  since CPW/orientation days, and it’s always been between China and France (although it's actually possible to do MISTI multiple times!). You see, there ... essence of how memory functions), my memories of “China” are blurred. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Bay have incredible views and great parties along with it. 3. The Mass ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... four times, and it's a lot of fun. The Boston Pops program always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  finally roll around came close to how it felt to wait for admissions ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... , it almost seems as if campus is constantly brimming over from the sheer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  along with it. 3. The Mass Ave bridge. Now that there are sound towers on ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... , Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (it always gives me goosebumps when the bells come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  perspective on how this initiative developed and the people who helped make it ... realized how hard it would be to convey my story in 12 minutes. ...My speech ... This semester, a great thing was born. MIT hosted its first annual

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  . So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those same things but do it in a detailed way that there just isn't room for in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  requirement and my HASS concentration. It hasn't met yet. Hey freshmen, how are ... Soon, there will be real entries! Sorry, it's been a crazy last ... it gives me free pizza once a week. 9.75 (Psychology of Gender and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  on Japanese Hip Hop. She studies its evolution from its relatively ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... highly recommends taking a look at it when it comes out. The second aspect

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  's important to know how MIT helps its students once they're here. I hope you ... is very extensive and would not fit here, so check it out.) Events of ... .) have put into crafting this year's Career Week, and am impressed by how

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  district of Japan and wear funky punk-rocker clothing. It occurred to me that ... . It turns out that on the first typewriters ever invented had a tendency ... QWERTY keyboard was 95 percent less efficient. So, I decided that it'd be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an ... how seamlessly I incorporate these links? I am a blogging genius. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in ... , though, I was lucky to make it into Boston (and I’m excluding visiting the ... experience Boston. And it is awesome. Real life example: my 4th of July

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get ... video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman’s a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... talk about what WILG means to me, I would say something like: it is difficult to look back on my time at MIT and not also see it as my time at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  line, at which point he "knew it wasn't Ikea," the Swedish furniture ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he ... the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011