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  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  (Sorry if you were expecting to read more about MIT, but exploring outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things. First of all, IAP is MIT’s Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Now that it’s break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that’s happened to me this semester. As I mentioned from my last blog, I…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and went through my normal morning routine: showering, packing my bag, and having breakfast. As usual, I missed…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  team. "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  After briefly lamenting the longer lunch lines upon the students’ return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the Infinite alongside falling juggling balls, skateboards and…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  I don’t usually watch TV but recently I saw a few episodes of The Colbert Report. Pretty hilarious stuff. Then the other day Chris Peterson (Head Honcho of the Bloggers…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  “Oh yea you guys don’t have armadillos up there in yankeeland” Another intern told me one day during work.  I’ve never been called a yankee before I moved to Houston,…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which, before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful gibberish machine which spouted pseudorandomly generated spam tweets from…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It’s finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you’ll get WAY more details than you could ever want, don’t worry). To summarize, here’s a map: After my last final…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Happy Friday! It’s now about halfway through IAP, Independent Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I’ve lived here in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means: I’ll go the gym starting tomorrow!!…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way home, we passed the Green Building. You…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  “Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them” –…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It’s hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10:45 last night warning me…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all…

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012