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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets, papers, and reading, but for most, they…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually leave it out at room temperature without…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  about MIT: academics, research, student life, Boston/Cambridge, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home.…

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

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although Boston conducted the most famous tea party in American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and then selling it, rather than dumping…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well ... today to image some neurons I prepared last week on the lab's worth-more-than-my-life ... real life. ;) You can add money at any time, so don't worry too much

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas. Well, I’ll show…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  I’m back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have been piling up in my inbox… Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at our hotel, Hotel Regent where the air conditioner was semi-disfunctional and the beds were twin extra long…

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  strange combination of yuck yuck and gross. Life goes on. I was thirsty so I

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation’s mushrooms. California, in second place, provides only 18%. Sam’s Mom has informed me that I…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? …what the most awkward thing in the whole entire world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go running and…

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

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT undergraduate mathlete extraordinaire Reid Barton, four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on Wikipedia. I couldn’t think of anything to blog about…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I’ll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a few blocks away in any direction. First off, there's Toscanini's about

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam):…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Both chocolate lava cake and peanut blossom cookies were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It’s not the holidays unless Sam’s Mom and I have baked four award-winning…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006