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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  . This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and the polarized dialogue to which it has given rise. I hope to ... Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed ... , learning how to play chess is still on the to-list, along with learning how ... 't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston…or ... full week. There seemed to be events going on 24 hours a day! While this ... ’s pretty much the pivotal element to many Orientation events. Believe it or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  early on Saturday morning (by which I mean about 11 am, of course), we got ... kneeling on wood chips, etc. which Anika and I faced, I will fast-forward to ... which is positive and supportive and caring), other people’s skills don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to ... 't allowed to take photos of most of the things we saw. So I'll take it from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math Circle (like the ones in Berekeley and Boston) is a gathering of K-12 students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road, on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  you don’t feel like dealing with paint fumes or chalk dust is to ... weight of any furniture you’d like to stack on top of it. These ... want to say on the matter, like tips to make a small room look bigger or

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  on the highway, or the service road next to it. Particularly when I ... go back the other way on the highway, or find my way to my destination ... first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  such. Like Pluto, it is socially acceptable to dunk on djent. After all ... one of their albums “Djent is Not a Genre.” Committed to the bit, one ... meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... delicacy of mud to again show off our proud cultural heritage. The Europeans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  start, which attracted companies and led to better opportunities. Without ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... sister, and his brother were all accepted to MIT within nine months of each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  (both of which were submitted to MITMedical). Then I had to fill out the ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  anyways. On Monday, I printed out everything I had to read, which also means ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... hanging on to my train of thought when other people are also injecting their

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  an action is good or bad? How to get rid of stains? What am I gonna ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  most of you have only lived for 17 or 18 years. We don't expect you to ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story ... watch the episode, click here or on the video image below. Enjoy!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006