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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  explored. You want to do research? It takes initiative. Even here at MIT ... night doing it because it's due tomorrow. Although I have to admit I think I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... saw, "Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" just opened on January 18. According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging ... , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael ... rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! LOOK AT MY PRETTY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war. And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil ... of fresh water is waning. There are several natural reactions to these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  woods?” The initial tension dissipated as we made our way to the ... project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to ... concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in productiveness. Unfortunately, the end of the year also initiates the terribly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  together my message and yelled it to the room, initiating a rib ... In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  that they failed to retain heat. I got to cook a special dinner for my ... to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

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

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side ... into tears. Tears that initially just sat on my lower eyelids. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in the face. The initial (terrible) script I spat out was heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  people at MIT to make art projects. The pilot project, which gained initial ... able to go to too many of the excursions because the semesters never fail ... , etc., but were only ever able to practice those things independently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... 17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013